Oak Bracket - Pseudoinonotus dryadeus
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.
Photograph upper and lower fertile surface to show pores; note host plant and substrate
base of oak trees
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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Species profile
- Common names
- Oak Bracket
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Hymenochaetales
- Family:
- Hymenochaetaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 9
- First record:
- 29/07/2011 (Stretton, Denise)
- Last record:
- 07/11/2024 (Timms, Sue)
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Saharima Roenisch
Abbey Park
06 November 2018
mttnx
Great Merrible Wood
25 July 2021
