Nice write-up Jacob... well done! A pleasure to read on this foggy afternoon.
The large mass of fungus you found at the base of a beech tree looks like an old example of Meripilus giganteus to me.
Beech is a common host and in high footfall public areas its appearance usually means curtains for the tree as the fungus colonises and destroys the roots and butt of the tree leading to failure.
I'm not sure about the birch polypore.... difficult from the photo but Piptoporus betulinus (birch polypore) usually grows from the main stem or branchwood of standing birch trees. It is more of a bracket fungus but can appear to have a stem in its early stages before the bracket broadens.
The fungi you showed looks to be growing in the leaf litter, not from living timber, and looks remarkably like chestnut mushrooms.
As I say, difficult without being there.
Cracking write-up and nice trip out
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The large mass of fungus you found at the base of a beech tree looks like an old example of Meripilus giganteus to me.
Beech is a common host and in high footfall public areas its appearance usually means curtains for the tree as the fungus colonises and destroys the roots and butt of the tree leading to failure.
I'm not sure about the birch polypore.... difficult from the photo but Piptoporus betulinus (birch polypore) usually grows from the main stem or branchwood of standing birch trees. It is more of a bracket fungus but can appear to have a stem in its early stages before the bracket broadens.
The fungi you showed looks to be growing in the leaf litter, not from living timber, and looks remarkably like chestnut mushrooms.
As I say, difficult without being there.
Cracking write-up and nice trip out
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