Fungi on tree

[Rig Pig]

Completely non welding! but has anyone come across this before, it's on an old and at the moment fairly healthy Victoria plum tree in my garden.

Haven't seen this sort of thing on a living tree before. Might be chainsaw time, it's a shame because it's a lovely tree that produces loads of fruit.

 

[Kayos]

I think they grow in the bark, seen them on otherwise healthy trees

 

[ibrooks]

Is that not chicken of the woods? Dunno the "proper" name for it but if it is it's edible.

 

[winchman]

Bob is your man I am sure he will be along shortly

 

[Barking Mat]

Bracket fungi, I think it's called. We get beef steak fungi on our oak, and pearl (?) On the table.
Quite common, can be edible.

 

[Barking Mat]

Check carefully what is edible.

 

[pedrobedro]

Bracket fungi, I think it's called. We get beef steak fungi on our oak, and pearl (?) On the table.
Quite common, can be edible.

They can all be eaten but some only once It looks like a Ganoderma, it's the only one I know and there are several varieties.

 

[Parm]

Bracket fungi, I think it's called. We get beef steak fungi on our oak, and pearl (?) On the table.
Quite common, can be edible.

Beef steak fungi is very delicious

 

[pedrobedro]

Different varieties of Ganoderma have different habits, it looks like that has grown in the wound left where the branch has been cut off and spread through the sapwood. Just keep picking the fruit

 

[Seadog]

Beef steak fungi is very delicious

So is chicken of the woods. But I don't think that's what it is.

 

[RaceDiagnostics]

I came across these ones in June 2015. The top of this tree was missing.

And then we came across this, looked like something out of GOT.

 

[Seadog]

I came across these ones in June 2015. The top of this tree was missing.

That looks like chicken.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Haven't seen this sort of thing on a living tree before.

Very common up here, some call them 'elephant's foot'. They grow on the shaded side of the trunk.

They can be knocked off with a suitably sized BFH....

 

[Kayos]

I bought a book to identify fungi, 2 very similar looking ones, one is edible and one will cause you a violent horrible death

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I' d never eat anything I 'foraged'.

 

[Pete.]

Completely non welding! but has anyone come across this before, it's on an old and at the moment fairly healthy Victoria plum tree in my garden.

Haven't seen this sort of thing on a living tree before. Might be chainsaw time, it's a shame because it's a lovely tree that produces loads of fruit.
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That's the same stuff that made the space ship Liberator fall apart in Blake's 7. The tree is doomed

 

[Seadog]

I' d never eat anything I 'foraged'.

Twice I've done it. Still here Mind you, it's difficult to mistake puffballs and the chicken was pretty obvious. Third time unlucky?

 

[RaceDiagnostics]

I' d never eat anything I 'foraged'.

Bet you've eaten a bramble.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Bet you've eaten a bramble.

Mhhh, got me there - yes, also wild rasps. I should have specifically alluded to fungi, it's pretty difficult for anything else to masquerade as brambles or rasps.

 

[Kayos]

I' d never eat anything I 'foraged'.

Mrs tried to get a foraging day out but they were all very down south. I was hoping for something at least up north