Oak Tree with Fungal Brackets possibly Sulphur Polypore Latest

Oak Tree with Fungal Brackets

Oak Tree with Fungal Brackets possibly Sulphur Polypore Latest photos taken approximately 2 weeks after the first.  They have grown some since and started to look more like the form they will take.

Definitely a wood rotter with the amount of hollow wood in a couple of the buttress roots.

Oak Tree with Fungal Brackets

see the first pictures

Stag Beetle Lucanus cervus

Stag Beetle Lucanus cervus in Lambeth off Brixton Hill. Not in a park but a tree pit from a street tree.

this is probably a female.  Not looking the most healthy, I was unsure if she was alive or dead

Oak Tree with Fungal Brackets possibly Sulphur Polypore

Oak Tree with Fungal Brackets

At this stage  this Oak Tree with Fungal Brackets possibly Sulphur Polypore is difficult to identify.  The yellow of the brackets immediately suggests Laetiporus sulphurus, however, the round shape of the brackets is not consistent with other pictures I have taken of this Polypore.

Root Flare behind bracket is hollow

The root flare behind this bracket is hollow.  More or less impossible to spot without the bright color of the bracket standing out against the dark bark of this Oak tree.