Off to Hazel Wood towards West Peckham today for a short walk before an on-line judging session for Faversham Trees, Pleased to allow Toby to calmly explore the muddy footpath across the fields, which he clearly enjoyed. In the woods things looked quite promising for fungi. On the left a coppice stool which I think was Sweet Chestnut had one dead stem that was well colonised by a Stereum species.
At eye-level the Stereum looked pretty fresh, but lower down the stem there were many older caps and no fresh ones. It seemed that there was a wave of fruiting moving roughly up the stem. This may or may not be indicative of the progress of fungal colonisation of the stem.
My first impression was of a pinkish crust, quite resupinate in the early stages, possibly having (retaining?) a more pileate nature in the older looking, dried out and more zonate crusts further down the stem. On looking in more detail the hairiness of the "upper" surface strongly reminded me of Stereum hirsutum, but the crusts looked significantly pinker with no trace of orange tints. The crusts looked thinner in cross section as well. Does Stereum hirsutum ever get as pink as this?
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