Possible Honey Fungus, Armillaria mellea or another Armillaria species.
Smoky Bracket, Bjerkandera adusta in numbers, on a trunk between the cafe and the playground. Saprobic on dead hardwood, and very occasionally on dead conifers. Even in my very limited experience, this is a a fungus that has a huge variety of different forms and appearances and can consequently be very confusing and difficult to identify. Here, the contiguous groups of brackets separated from each other look very unusual at first sight, almost a number of brackets forming on a larger resupinate plate, but a Google search suggests that this is one of the characteristic growth patterns of this species in at least one phase of its growth. Compare with the observation on the 15th February, 2024 at Dene Park, where it looks as though the brackets are just beginning to form on a smaller resupinate plate.
This particular trunk looks a bit sycamore-ish, but unfortunately I couldn't identify the host tree reliably.
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