Help with i.d , hairy bracket!!

[Leif]

Incidentally, it is usually fairly easy to recognise an Inonotus species from the pores. When viewed from certain angles they have a silvery sheen, which they lose from other angles. I'm not sure if this is true for all Inonotus species, but it is certainly true of those I routinely encounter.

[mushroom mike]

Very useful tip, thanks
The tubes totally collapsed when dried which is quite cool. Not sure if this happens with other poroids?

[Ganoderma resinaceum]

Indeed, that's very interesting. Once next year's crop comes out on the ash, sorbi and alders, I shall take a look.

Pardon my assumption that this was H. annosum, too. I was wrong.

[mushroom mike]

Not an easy one to i.d. I am just happy I got there in the end.