Hi Ian,
What with that dark crusty top in the second picture, developing in the
3rd, it looks mightily like Ganoderma, first one being juvenile. Give it
a year or so and this will also start to look like the others.
Can you tell me if the crust of the second is soft or hard when press
into. This can be seen as one of the on-site indicating factors between
G.applanatum or G.australe, the latter being more parasitic, where both
affect Beech?
Ian
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