Fungus - Any Idea What?

[Ryewolf]

Not sure what type of fungus, seen on a fallen tree branch on a walk today along Woodnook Vale, a local haunt not far from my house.

[JHFoto]

I don't know but whatever you do do not eat it.............

[Ryewolf]

I hadn't planned on eating them, it reminded me of very well done crumpets, I did a search but there are so many different types I'venot been able to track it down.

[JHFoto]

Good luck............

[Ryewolf]

Thanks everyone. The one in the foreground was about 6-8cm across, I didn't look at the underside or the stalk.

[NannyFerret]

Lovely detail and colour, RW.

It would be interesting to know what it was, wouldn't it?

 

[Ryewolf]

Yes, that's pretty much the colour they were, just checked the original, the only thing I did was brighten the image to compensate for the -2/3rds ev setting. The cap of the mushroom was flat across the top, I thought it might be a type of bracket fungus.

The original

 

40 minutes ago, Ron said:

I am wondering if they are Fly Agaric, old ones well past their best. The white warts wash off with age and rain and we have certainly had plenty of that.

Will be interesting to see what Judy comes up with.

Rye, have you noticed the scary face hiding in your picture...lol

Ron

Don't think it's Fly Agaric, they're pretty distinctive and I've seen them before with and without the spots.

I hadn't noticed the face until you mentioned it but now I can.

[Ryewolf]

It's definitely some sort of Bracket/Shell fungus, I went back past them again today, there are about a dozen growing on this branch of various sizes and got an image from the side.

[Ryewolf]

Yes that first image I was looking directly down at it, as the interesting patterning caught my eye. I did look at images of Cinnabar Red Polypore but as Judy's just mentioned it doesn't look spotty enough.

[Ryewolf]

Alas I couldn't see the underside, the branch was till big to move and photograph one handed and didn't want to damage the fungi by turning it over. I've been looking closely at the spots and zoomed in they look more like holes rather than spots.

[Ryewolf]

Thanks for all your help guys, I'm prepared to go with Cinnabar Red Polypore, when I looked on a few websites about Woodnook Vale it did say that 85 different species of fungi had been identified, several of them notable, hence not wanting to disturb it incase it was a rare species.

[Clicker]

Well we learn something new every day on  here don't we ?

Well spotted Rye.. observant as always !