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Stereum sp.
The second image shows the underside of the fruitbody. Maybe false turkey tail. Stereum hirsutum? http://www.mushroomexpert.com/stereum_hi...
aj24
Spotted on Oct 2, 2012
Submitted on Oct 5, 2012
4 Comments
It's a very nice spotting, so since you went back and checked it, it must be definitely some kind of stereum sp... If you have an available online photo catalog, then probably all you have to do, is to compare your pics with the ones in the catalog...Sometimes the species are identical, so if you can't find anyone to identify it exactly (although I believe there must be countless fungi experts in UK), then you must choose the one name you think it's the correct one.
Here in NZ, no matter how many times I send pics to "specialist" ones, nobody ever answered to me...I've learned what I learned on my own, through those catalogs, but now, there is also the project Noah in my life :)
Thanks both of you, they both seem like possible options I don't know how to differentiate between the two. Despina; I went back and had another look at the underside and there were no pores. I was unsure but it turns out the second image is probably of the underside
I have a spotting of something similar (Stereum Hirsutum) and it's also found in the UK: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/121...
http://www.first-nature.com/fungi/stereu...
If it's got no pores underneath, it might be Stereum ostrea...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereum_ost...