Oak Bracket

Oak Bracket - Pseudoinonotus dryadeus

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Alternative names
Inonotus dryadeus
Description

A large annual hoof-shaped or shelf like bracket, with pale yellowish-brown felted caps. It exudes golden droplets at the cap edge when it is in active growth.   Rounded to angular, light-reflecting pores, 3 - 5 per mm.

Identification difficulty
Recording advice

Photograph upper and lower fertile surface to show pores; note host plant and substrate

Habitat

base of oak trees

VC55 Status

Not very common in Leicestershire and Rutland.

  • Peter Smith
    Great Merrible Wood
    21 July 2021
  • stepgray4
    Great Merrible Wood
    29 July 2023
  • Saharima Roenisch
    Abbey Park
    06 November 2018
  • Saharima Roenisch
    Abbey Park
    06 November 2018
  • stepgray4
    Great Merrible Wood
    29 July 2023
  • Peter Smith
    Great Merrible Wood
    21 July 2021
  • sue
    Woodhouse Eaves, Beacon Hill, Beacon Plantation
    07 November 2024
  • Robert Carter
    Stoughton Lane Evington
    09 August 2023
    Inonotus dryadeus
  • Denise Stretton
    Markfield Lane Newtown Linford
    29 July 2011

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