This is what I was seeing in the bracket fungi in my woods. Tiny new fungi growing out of the original with the correct gravitational orientation after their host tree had fallen.

Bracket fungi are those tough, shelf-like growths you’ve probably seen on tree trunks and fallen logs in the woods. They belong to a large, heterogeneous group of fungi commonly called polypores ...

Another larger shelf fungus is the “Artist’s Conk”, Ganoderma applanatum, which grows on logs or wounds of living trees. It is a dark, hard perennial fungus and can persist for 40 years or more.

A: It sounds like your tree has been visited by bracket fungus growths. These are saprophytic (meaning that they are not parasitic) funguses that attack decaying wood.

DEAR K.: What you're seeing is a many-zoned polypore (Coriolus versicolor), a common bracket fungus adorned with colored rings that grows stacked in large groups, as your photo depicts.

O Christmas Tree, a Fungus Is Attacking Thy Branches L.A. Times Archives Dec. 27, 2000 12 AM PT From Newsday ...

These shelf fungi (bracket) can be of various sizes and shapes. Unlike the typical mushrooms in the soil, shelf fungi are usually perennial and maybe survive for years.

Hidden allies: Trees and fungi Date: February 26, 2025 Source: Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology Summary: Researchers report on the influence of an endophytic fungus of the genus ...

The fungi and the trees are in a mutually beneficial relationship: the fungi cannot photosynthesize, as they have no access to light and no chlorophyll. So they get a type of sugar produced in ...

It is found on dying or dead black locust trees. Dead, dry pieces of this fire fungus can be used in the same ways as horse hoof fungus, and they also make a nice long match.

Pollution hits the fungi that nourish European trees Date: June 6, 2018 Source: Imperial College London Summary: Pollution is changing the fungi that provide mineral nutrients to tree roots, which ...