An interesting find today of the Many-zoned Polypore or "Turkeytail", Trametes versicolor L. ex Fr., on the loose old stump from the felled Ash tree by the A26 opposite the college front lawn. This is one of the many common colour variants seen in Geoffrey Kibby's book, a dark centre to the cap, with a clear whitish edge. The hairy and smooth zones are however obviously very narrowly zonate. The hymenial surface is a creamy white. A fairly impressive sight overall in my view.
The brackets here look "fresh", a bit swollen and jelly-like rather than "thin". However there are many pictures of the brackets looking just like this, certainly well before the larvae of the Small Fungus Beetles, the family Cisidae beetles such as Cis boleti start to get at them, hungrily eating out the hymenial pore layers, leading the upper surface, the cap cuticle, looking dried out and curling over. The bracket structure is trimictic, rather tough for other weaker beetle larvae to eat into.
According to FTE, the favoured host in the nemoral regions of this bracket is Beech, but this isn't backed up in any of the UK books. However, most sources do seem to agree that stumps are very much favoured! There is also a consistent view that this is one of the commonest fungi seen in Europe. Sort of strange that I don't see more of it.
Should have about (3)4-5 pores per mm.
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