Help needed with Fungi I.D

hiraeth

Settler
Jan 16, 2007
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Port Talbot
I spotted this fungi, growing from an old dead tree the weekend and was hoping that someone could I.D it for me please. Sorry that the photo is poor quality
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SOAR

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Jan 21, 2007
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cheshire
Not too sure, it's some sort of bracket fungus, looks like a maze gill?.

Simon.
 
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jamesHarrisonAkers

Guest
om not at all good on this kind if stuff yet but it looks a bit a dead/dying and old VELVET SHANK if it is it is edible but DO NOT take my advice as im not 100% sure
 

match

Settler
Sep 29, 2004
707
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Edinburgh
Definitely not velvet shank - velvet shank is a much smaller mushroom, which grows in clumps and has very obvious stems with a velvety coating on them:

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Some kind of bracket fungus - but I'm not too hot on them (don't usually fall into the 'tasty and worth collecting' bracket :rolleyes: )
 
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jamesHarrisonAkers

Guest
just thought it could be ive seen a few oldish rotting velevets looking like that but like i said not very good at this stuff what do you reckon looks like few diffrent brackett fungi
 

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