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Bracket colony on the rock ledge
Trametes sp. Genus
Angles captured. 2 frames of one subject.
Morphology
Overlapping shelving brackets, each 3–6 cm, concentrically banded in cream, buff and grey-brown, tiered along woody debris against a rock ledge.
Habitat & substrate
Woody debris and a mossy fallen log against a rock ledge beside the trail.
Lookalikes & what rules them out
Zoned shelving brackets — Trametes versicolor or Stereum ostrea, the same unresolved pair as TM0099.
To confirm this identification
The underside. Fine white pores confirm Trametes.
Notes
Originally two entries five seconds apart. Same colony, two angles.
Found at Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary, Princeton, MA on Saturday, 8 August 2026 at 10:39. See the full walk for that day's weather and everything else recorded.
Others in this group
Perennial polypore on an oak trunkGanoderma sp. · Oct 10Moderate
Small zoned bracketTrametes sp. · Jul 31Moderate–high
Cinnabar polypore on oakPycnoporus cinnabarinus · Aug 1High
Orange-gilled bracket on a logTapinella or Phyllotopsis · Aug 6Moderate
Brown cap on a birch logUnidentified · Aug 6Low
Zoned brackets on rockTrametes or Stereum · Aug 6Moderate
Birch polyporeFomitopsis betulina · Aug 6High
Cinnabar polypore on a stickPycnoporus cinnabarinus · Aug 6High