The Smoky Bracket, Bjerkandera adusta, is a very common fungus, which can be found in a fully prostrate form (effused), as well as as, perhaps much more commonly, caps (reflexed).
It should always be pressed on the pore surface to see if it darkens upon pressure. Also cross-sectioning the tissue should reveal the grey pore layer contrasting well with the white flesh. Bjerkandera fumosa has lighter coloured pores, separated from the white flesh by a dark line.
Today, there were a number of individual fruiting bodies, mostly resupinate, on fallen branches of Oak in the first Oak compartment to the north of the car park at Dene Park.
There was evidence I think of the very yellowed flesh of previous fruiting bodies below and behind the current ones, and some slightly yellowed flesh of the current brackets visible in the gaps of the larger fruiting bodies seen here. Some clear and some cloudy liquid droplets on this lower surfaces. In some places the flesh is reflexed to start cap formation, although why is less clear.
This other large resupinate fruiting body appears to show more small developing caps, and also maybe a couple of patches of the pore surface darkened by pressure.
Here the fungus has used a leaf as support to produce a thin resupinate structure quickly and easily.
Here is an old cap, decaying, brown and fibrous.
And here is a Springtail, possibly Tomocerus vulgaris!
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