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Some flavor of polypore, flesh was very thick and woody, no gills. Did not remove sample for spore print.
Dead tree, moderate moisture in the area.
Hungry Mother State Park, VA
Bracket fungi is neither a genus or species, it merely refers to the polypores and tooth fungi that grow shelf like on trees.
It reminds my spotting:
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/340...
which Gary Lincoff identified as Inonotus hispidus