Bracket fungus - Polyporales, perhaps a Ganoderma?

Reference

- Dawson and Lucas, Nature Guide to the New Zealand Forest (Godwit/Random House, 2000), p. 244 (photo of Ganoderma applanatum)

(iNat uploads start here 3/4/24.)

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Found this Bracket Fungus along the Nature Trail near here in late summer!

Downstream view of the crane in the waterfall. Looks like a bracket to me, with her reflection.

On a broken tree trunk, Slimbridge WWT

Installing the mounting bracket and the motor. Ceiling fans are pretty much all done the same way. This is the mounting bracket and motor being installed and wired. Us "special" ladies can still do work and do it better than what bigots give us credit for!

37219 with extra brackets and wires for a portable camera system tails 1Q64 09.06 Derby RTC to Neville Hill test train through Shirebrook station on Monday 30th April 2018.

Taken during my daily exercise period during lock down. Not seen anything that says you can't take a camera with you.

I'm curious whether this horizontal tree bracket fungus is really the same bracket only growing in a different direction now that the tree has fallen. Or maybe it's a new one growing on the now vertical bracket.

This fungus is growing happily on the side of a tree stump, inches from a stone wall, where it enjoys shade, moisture, and privacy. I found it anyway.

Bracketing.

10 raw files shot with focus bracket and stacked in a nice little free program called Picolay.

Whatcom Falls Park in Bellingham, WA

Bracketed 1.5 stops

Ex #325 Second post in one day....

This has been hanging around in my to go file for a while. Not a good flick pic but here it is !

It's a bracketed HDR taken with my 20mm lens using a grad filter to stop the bleed of backlight.

I may look up it’s name if i get time...

Potteric Carr nature reserve

After visiting my favourite pie shop in Lytham I nipped over to Lytham Hall woods to look for fungi. Although a few were still intact some had been kicked down and ruined especially the bright red easy to spot fly algarics.

Many thanks to you ALL for the views, faves and comments you make on my shots it is very appreciated.

a pretty bracket fungi showing both sides

Late evening sun

Fuji X70

Sheffield park

Dreher Park

West Palm Beach, Florida

Infrared Converted Olympus E-P5 + Olympus 12-50mm

I found these cool bracket fungi covering a fallen log in the woods. Not 100% sure of the id but the photos match and iNat thinks this is right. Will update if the id changes. This is a closeup of one section.

Purplepore Bracket Fungi (Trichaptum abietinum)

The Preserve at Maxwell Creek

My photos can also be found at kapturedbykala.com

containing three images at intended exposure and the +/- compensations of the bracketing. Choose a subject that is intentionally chosen for its difficult lighting situation (for example, extreme lighting contrasts in the scene, shadow areas, back lit subject, etc.). Place the normally exposed image in the centre panel,the underexposed image in the left panel, and the over-exposed image in the right panel. The image should be bracketed for either 1 or 2 stops.

A macro shot of the underside of a Bracket Fungus.

This is a bracket fungus I happened across that had been damaged revealing this cross section

Polypores are a group of fungi that form fruiting bodies with pores or tubes on the underside (see Delimitation for exceptions). They are a morphological group of basidiomycetes like gilled mushrooms and hydnoid fungi, and not all polypores are closely related to each other. Polypores are also called bracket fungi, and their woody fruiting bodies are called conks.

Most polypores inhabit tree trunks or branches consuming the wood, but some soil-inhabiting species form mycorrhiza with trees. Polypores and their relatives corticioid fungi are the most important agents of wood decay. Thus, they play a very significant role in nutrient cycling and carbon dioxide production of forest ecosystems.

Over one thousand polypore species have been described to science,[1] but a large part of the diversity is still unknown even in relatively well-studied temperate areas. Polypores are much more diverse in old natural forests with abundant dead wood than in younger managed forests or plantations. Consequently, a number of species have declined drastically and are under threat of extinction due to logging and deforestation.

Polypores are used in traditional medicine, and they are actively studied for their medicinal value and various industrial applications. Several polypore species are serious pathogens of plantation trees and are major causes of timber spoilage.

source: wikipedia

Ecclesall woods, Sheffield.

A nice example at Glapthorn

A small pond off Gardner Rd in Monroe. Bracketed 3 shots and merged in PS. No other processing.

Dearborn County Courthouse, Lawrenceburg, Indiana

I do like a fungus photo. Cray, Scotland.

Many thanks to Erik the Cat for identifying this one for me.

Brackets on an old wooden cart.

This looks different to anything that I have seen before. The colours are quite dramatic. The only thing that I can make it match in my books are Fomitopsis sp, both of which are very rarely recorded. I would be very interested in opinions from knowedgeable folk.

Found on a wooden bollard/fence post, Probably a softwood.

Edit: I'm now convinced that this is F. pinicola.

From 7/26/1995: Northbound Q376-26 with a YN2 SD50 and a CRL (Conrail Leasing) C30-7 split the intermediate bracket CPL signals at MP 98 at Sidney, Ohio.