This is probably my last fungus for the season, it's become very hot and dry and the only time we really see fungi in this area and climate is for a few weeks in summer when it rains heavily.
I have no idea what this is, it started growing on a cut privet stump in my garden for a few weeks over summer but then disintegrated when it became hotter and drier. Maybe it would have made a woodier structure like a bracket fungus if the weather had remained cool and rainy, I don't know.
People with sharp eyes will spot a second fungus in the background: that little white blur is a tiny little split gill fungus, a type that is found all over the world. Someone told me that they are edible but you'd have to find a lot of these before you could cook anything with them.
Here's a slightly better picture of it on another dead tree stump
All these tree stumps everywhere make it sound like I'm a tree killer. Not so, I was just trimming the invasives and when I fixed the poor drainage around my house, they all died, since they aren't truly suited to the hot, dry climate here.
#fungifriday is an initiative started by @ewkaw. No prizes involved, just a day to post fungi