white bracket fungi

Description:

Bracket or Shelf Fungi are familiar objects of nature in forests. Beginning as small, slightly elevated protuberances, or flat, orbicular patches on the bark of a dead tree trunk, log, or stump, they gradually increase in size and assume more or less definite shapes. Some never attain a breadth of more than a third of an inch, while others may ultimately obtain a width of nearly a foot and one-half, and project fully one-half that distance from the surface of the matrix. The most common form, perhaps, is that of a semicircle, the fungus being more or less flattened and attached by its straight edge to the log or stump.

Habitat:

These bracket fungi were spotted on a dead log in Silver Springs State Park in Ocala Florida

Notes:

The bracket fungi are from the phylum basidiomycota in the class basidiomycetes. Do not have a specific scientific name for this spotting.