The fruiting bodies are white, knobbly and fairly hard, requiring a fair amount of force to break. Older bodies may be covered with green algae, or partially covered with vegetation and leaves making them difficult to spot. They often encapsulate grass, twigs and other debris.

These pictures were taken in Southampton, UK during October 2004.

The tree is a bifurcated Crack Willow and has both stems covered on all sides with these brackets.

This picture shows a scanned cross section through one of the above fungal brackets  (cut with my kitchen bread knife, or should I say sawn!). The flesh inside was pliable but tough, much like strong rubber.

In the picture, the fungus was attached to the tree on the left hand side, with the spore tubes at the bottom. The annual light/dark banding is visible within the flesh and the darker tube layer (on its bottom edge) can be clearly seen contrasting against the paler flesh layer above. The colour of the tube layer is a means of identifying this species from the similar looking 'Perenniporia fraxinea' which has its flesh and tube layer of the same colour.

These brackets were found on a mature Ash located within a hedgerow by a country lane. The brackets were found on all sides of the stem base.

Note the spore coating on the Ivy below the bracket.