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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
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.)
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.
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.
Does it serve to hold these two blocks of the wharf in place? If so, there should be more of them. Or was it just an anchor for a mooring line? Lane's Cove, Gloucester, MA
For a detailed history of this site, see my photo "Ye Olde Towne Landinge" on my Flickr page.
Ganoderma applanatum (the artist's bracket, artist's conk or bear bread) At least I think that's what it is.
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...
Bracket fungi, or shelf fungi, are among the many groups of fungi that compose the division Basidiomycota. Characteristically, they produce shelf- or bracket-shaped or occasionally circular fruiting bodies called conks that lie in a close planar grouping of separate or interconnected horizontal rows. Brackets can range from only a single row of a few caps, to dozens of rows of caps that can weigh several hundred pounds. They are mainly found on trees (living and dead) and coarse woody debris, and may resemble mushrooms. Some form annual fruiting bodies while others are perennial and grow larger year after year. Bracket fungi are typically tough and sturdy and produce their spores, called basidiospores, within the pores that typically make up the undersurface.
The KP has a useful shooting mode called 'Depth of Field Bracketing'. It allows for a burst of 3 shots in quick succession at varying apertures whilst keeping exposure the same (so it adjusts ISO or shutter speed, your choice). You can adjust it either way so that your first shot is stopped down and moving to wider open apertures or vice versa, and you can adjust the step gain between each shot.
This can be a really useful feature as perhaps you fancy trying to nail a f1.8 shot on something tricky, but suffer a small amount of back soft focus, then the subsequent stopped down shots can come to your rescue (albeit with slower shutter speeds or more grain).
You can also get creative like I did here in this shot by stacking and combining frames. This shot here pictured above is mainly f1.8 (focus was on the hanging light) but in the original f1.8 shot the green edging leaf decoration thing is also very out of focus but I quite liked the stopped down versions of that part of the image and thus I was able to use the more stopped down frames to bring the leaf decoration into focus on the f1.8 shot whilst maintaining nice centre bokeh rather than a harder stopped down blur.
I'll add the other frames and varying apertures in the comments to show.
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
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.