Hello Everyone,
A couple of weeks ago I went for a walk in my local park in southern england and saw a very strange fungus on a Beech tree (Fagus sylvatica). It appeared identical to a normal horse's hoof (Formes fomentarius) but was pure white in colour. There were several fruiting bodies on the tree.
I've tried to look it up both in books and online but can find nothing that comes near to its pure white colour. Does anybody know what it could be? It definetly wasn't a polypore by the way and contained a huge amount of Amadou. Many thanks for everybody's help. Here are some pictures of it:
http://s990.photobucket.com/albums/af28/fungiphotos/
Oh, and coinsidently, the same tree also had some King Afred's Cakes (Daldinia concentrica) on it which I've never seen on a Beech Tree before.
A couple of weeks ago I went for a walk in my local park in southern england and saw a very strange fungus on a Beech tree (Fagus sylvatica). It appeared identical to a normal horse's hoof (Formes fomentarius) but was pure white in colour. There were several fruiting bodies on the tree.
I've tried to look it up both in books and online but can find nothing that comes near to its pure white colour. Does anybody know what it could be? It definetly wasn't a polypore by the way and contained a huge amount of Amadou. Many thanks for everybody's help. Here are some pictures of it:
http://s990.photobucket.com/albums/af28/fungiphotos/
Oh, and coinsidently, the same tree also had some King Afred's Cakes (Daldinia concentrica) on it which I've never seen on a Beech Tree before.