Smoky Bracket - Bjerkandera adusta
The overlapping, stalkless caps of this bracket fungus are 3 to 10 cm across with a brown upper surface and a distinctive grey porous underside, hence the common name.
On dead wood of deciduous trees, occasionally on conifer wood.
July to November but persisting all year round.
Widespread and fairly common in Britain.
Fairly common in Leicestershire and Rutland.
David Nicholls
Thornton Reservoir
13 November 2004
Steve Mathers
Charnwood Lodge NR
22 October 2017
Steve Mathers
Charnwood Lodge NR
22 October 2017
underside
Andy's Rutland
Warren Spinney-Empingham
04 November 2019
Jane Hollingworth
Church View Garden Quorn
05 October 2019
Melinda Bell
Willesley Wood
01 January 2023
completely resupinate growth
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Species profile
- Common names
- Smoky Bracket
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Polyporales
- Family:
- Meruliaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 19
- First record:
- 13/11/2004 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 15/12/2023 (Stones, Richard)
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Andy's Rutland
Warren Spinney-Empingham
04 November 2019
Melinda Bell
Stocking Wood
12 January 2023
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
02 November 2011
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
02 November 2011
smoky looking underside
egaten
Swithland Woods
07 January 2022
egaten
Swithland Woods
07 January 2022
