Horses Hoof Fungi, ..also known as the Tinder Fungus.
What is this rock-hard Fungi.?
Is it ...Fomes fomentarius ?
See below :- an example from Flickr.
The one I show here, seems to have eight layers,all hard to the touch. I must go back to tack another look before the dead Silver Birch falls to the ground and the Fungus is lost.
I think now, it may well be ... Fomes fomentarius (see Link)
www.rogersmushrooms.com/gallery/DisplayBlock~bid~5928.asp
I've been back and taken a more detailed picture, there were more of them but this was by far the best example. It is much more common than first I thought, I guess I have not been as observant as I thought I was.
Horses Hoof Fungi, ..also known as the Tinder Fungus.
What is this rock-hard Fungi.?
Is it ...Fomes fomentarius ?
See below :- an example from Flickr.
The one I show here, seems to have eight layers,all hard to the touch. I must go back to tack another look before the dead Silver Birch falls to the ground and the Fungus is lost.
I think now, it may well be ... Fomes fomentarius (see Link)
www.rogersmushrooms.com/gallery/DisplayBlock~bid~5928.asp
I've been back and taken a more detailed picture, there were more of them but this was by far the best example. It is much more common than first I thought, I guess I have not been as observant as I thought I was.