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Bracket colony on the rock ledge
Trametes or Stereum 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 Goodnow Rd area, 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 or Stereum · Jul 31Moderate
Cinnabar polypore on oakPycnoporus cinnabarinus (= Trametes cinnabarina) · Aug 1High
Zoned brackets on rockTrametes or Stereum · Aug 6Moderate
Birch polyporeFomitopsis betulina or Fomes fomentarius · Aug 6Moderate
Cinnabar polypore on a stickPycnoporus cinnabarinus (= Trametes cinnabarina) · Aug 6High
Bracket colony among fernsTrametes or Stereum · Aug 8Low–moderate
Turkey tail on the fallen logTrametes versicolor · Aug 8Moderate–high