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Stereum complicatum
Stereum complicatum (Fr.) Fr. Bracket 0.3-1.5cm across, fan-shaped or semicircular, with a wavy margin; pinkish or orangish to cinnamon fawn or grayish, with a paler whitish margin; silky-hairy, concentric zones and furrows, smooth and shiny near margin. Fertile surface orange, fading to cream-fawn or cinnamon fawn; smooth or slightly ridged where caps meet. Spores cylindrical to slightly curved, smooth, 5-6.5 x 2-2.5µ. Deposit white.
Habitat in overlapping or laterally fused groups on dead twigs and stumps of hardwoods, especially oak. Found in Europe and throughout North America except the Rocky Mountains.
Season July-January, fruit body overwinters. Not edible. location: North America, Europe edibility: Inedible fungus colour: Red or redish or pink, Grey to beige, Orange normal size: Less than 5cm cap type: Other stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent spore colour: White, cream or yellowish habitat: Grows on wood
Spotted on Dec 5, 2011
Submitted on Dec 20, 2011
2 Comments
no clue so far ....... still looking, but decided to put them out there and see if anyone else might know.
Your last 2 are similar to Trametes Versicolor but not ?? Got any ID idea?