id this fungus?

This looks to me like potentially a Phellinus Sp. of fungi, although on the Phellinus species they have an underbelly as it were-they are convex!! Yours definately is concave is it-as if it were a scallop shell sitting on the tree so to speak!!
If you check out Ph. ignarius for example, it does rather appear similar from above.

Source. ''mushrooms' by Roger Phillips
 
Hi Steve

Hope your well fella?
Having a bit of a sunday buzz session & catching up!

I'd say without too much doubt that you're looking at G. resinaceum. Obviously without having seen the parent tree you can never be 100% sure. The other UK possibility would be G. pfeifferi which if memory serves well normally grows from a stalk of greater or lesser extent & is less common. I believe it to be a white rot, therefore it digests the lignified part leaving the spongy cellulose.

Massive reduction & come back in 50years. /forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Cheers
Nod
 
Hey Scotty
Hope your good mate? As I understand it the cigarette lighter trick is a guaranteed ID for resinaceum. Well so I was informed some years back, apart from the time I had no lighter.

Cheers
Nod
 
Nod,

Hope your well also? The last time Q was over he taught me about that little trick, as we found it on Larch tree over here in Germany oneday.

I am doing ok, at present writing this from Holland doing some work here by my former employer.

All the best

Scotty /forum/images/graemlins/cool.gif
 
I'm going to have fun with this fungi thing this year. I've been building an album for fun. This year, I want to learn a few dozen names and IDs if I get the time.

The fungi album is available from here

Image Gallery Page

One of my favorites is the cluster that looks like a wig on the log.
 
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