Young specimens of this bracket fungus are considered a delicacy, in Germany for example. In this first picture, the fungus is beginning to turn orange, having been around for a few days.
The paler yellow here was the shade when I first saw the fungus.
From the slime trails around it, it had already been attracting the attentions of one or more slugs.
I don’t eat wild fungi anyway, but the slugs were welcome to this one. The cherry tree which was its host was growing only a few feet from the ring road.
