Bracket fungus?

[Rufus]

I believe this is a type of bracket fungus. It was growing extensively on the trunk of a tree and the image shows only part section of it.

It looks like a stack of pancakes!

[Geoff F]

Brackets can be tricky to identify but if they are large (about 12 ins wide) and covered in spores looking like cocoa powder I would suggest one of the Ganoderma species. Small and rather thin (about 3 or 4 ins wide) would probably be Trametes versicolor. Either way it suggests the tree is in poor health.

[Rufus]

Thank you Geoff. Based on its size, it must be one of the Ganoderma species it was about 12 wide and about 3 feet in total from top to bottom.