Funghi

[IAM ODIN]

Any idea what this is chaps and chapettes ? Edible or non edible?

 

[Brambling]

It's a bracket fungus of some sort.

I use this website a lot for identifying all things natural.

Bracket and Crust Fungi Picture Gallery

www.first-nature.com

 

[David Day]

I use this website a lot for identifying all things natural.

Bracket and Crust Fungi Picture Gallery

www.first-nature.com

Great link!

 

[IAM ODIN]

I cant see anything like it really :/

 

[IAM ODIN]

Another piccie

 

[saxonaxe]

Wild guess. It looks like it's growing on a Silver Birch, so Birch Polypore, perhaps?

 

[Ystranc]

Either that or it could also be winter polypore or bay polypore....both found on deciduous deadwood late autumn, winter, through to early spring, neither of which are edible.

 

[IAM ODIN]

Yep i reckon you got it. Birch polypore
Thanks everyone

 

[Joecole]

Wild guess. It looks like it's growing on a Silver Birch, so Birch Polypore, perhaps?

It is a polypore but not well developed hence the
lack of colour

 

[Ystranc]

It can be really difficult to properly identify a fungi from just s photo. Nice call Joe and Sax

 

[Joecole]

It can be really difficult to properly identify a fungi from just s photo. Nice call Joe and Sax

Google or Bing Mike plus my little book

 

[Ystranc]

I use a great big book...not particularly convenient but I trust it more than the interweb

 

[Bopdude]

And as always with fungi, if you don't know don't touch, I personally know less than nothing about our wild growing shrooms etc, would not touch a single one after reading some of the horror stories, oops, just realised I've contradicted myself, I do know something, don't touch them, did I say that enough already

 

[IAM ODIN]

It is a polypore but not well developed hence the
lack of colour

Good god how big do they get? This one was about 12 inches width and 6 inch depth by about 3 inches height?

 

[Joecole]

Good god how big do they get? This one was about 12 inches width and 6 inch depth by about 3 inches height?

Like I said, just a baby. Under ideal conditions it can go about 25% bigger than that

 

[saxonaxe]

Funghi are a bit like Humans, Odin. They start off looking soft, pale and smooth and then turn leathery, darker and wrinkled as they age. Many are harmless but some are downright poisonous, but all eventually either quietly fall off their tree or wither away. Others get themselves in a stew and get eaten by people who know what to look for when seeking a free meal.
The ones to be wary of are those that pretend to be something else, but if you know what you are dealing with they won't cause you any problems.

An old Chinese proverb..I just made up.....