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Skrunt

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Hi Skrunt, welcome to this site with this first ID post. I think what you have there is the start of a blooming of Cerioporus squamosus, aka Polyporus squamosus and commonly called Dryad's Saddle and Pheasant Back. In a matter of days this mass will fill out to take on the bracket shape. You will find this fungus has a smell similar to watermelon rind. Below are photos of the same mushroom taken a week apart, with the bracket fully formed..

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When the bracket is developed you will see the pores on the underside. Often after rains this polypore will become saturated and shed water, as below.

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The C. squamosus proposal makes sense to me. The little "nodes" seen protruding from the fruit body may very well be the first stage of expansion into large frond-like appendages. My first thought was "Scleroderma", except growth directly on wood points away from this genus... then, I noticed the little nodes. If the weather cooperates, and there are still some of these left in-situ, the predicted change in appearance may become apparent. 

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