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Fomitopsis pinicola.
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| synonyms: Fichtenporling, Szegett tapló, Unguline marginee |
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| location: North America, Europe | | edibility: Inedible | | fungus colour: Brown, Black or blackish | | normal size: over 15cm | | cap type: Other | | stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent | | flesh: Pore material cannot be seperated from flesh of the cap | | spore colour: White, cream or yellowish | | habitat: Grows on wood |
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Fomitopsis pinicola (Swartz ex Fr.) Karsten. Fichtenporling Szegett tapló Unguline marginee. Fruit body perennial; no stem. Up to 38cm across, 20cm wide, 15cm thick, convex to hoof-shaped, with a thickened, rounded margin; upper surface with a sticky reddish-brown resinous crust, then grayish to brown or black; hard, woody, smooth or glossy-looking. Tubes up to 6mm deep per season; cream to buff. Pores 5-6 per mm, circular; surface cream-colored. Flesh up to 12cm thick, corky, hard, woody; cream to buff, sometimes zoned. Spores cylindrical ellipsoid, smooth, 6-9 x 3.5-4.5µ. Deposit whitish. Hyphal structure trimitic; clamps present. Habitat on dead conifer stumps and logs and occasionally on living trees. Found throughout Europe and most of North America except the South from Texas eastward. Season all year. Not edible. Comment The most commonly collected polypore in North America. The cap colors are rather variable. The last photograph has been given to us by Ted Green, many thanks Ted. |
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Kristina Trott (United States) - 28 September 2015
There are scary things in the woods. Didn't like this thing's expression at all, glad it's only the underside of a guttating F. pinicola! (And very small-- 2nd year fruitbody.)
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Kristina Trott (United States) - 26 September 2015
Growing on hemlock snag.
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Dave Maxwell (Canada) - 04 June 2015
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Kristina Trott (United States) - 14 January 2015
New fruitbody sprouting, fallen hemlock log
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Kristina Trott (United States) - 14 January 2015
Multi-generation group
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Kristina Trott (United States) - 14 January 2015
One of three growing on dead hemlock snag; several more of varying ages on fallen trunk section. (These appear nowhere else in extensive woodland..)
Cap shows color only at edges unless wet, dusty grey when dry.
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Preston Villumsen (United States) - 18 March 2013
Myself with a large specimen. Were my fingertips at one end the other would go above my elbow.
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Andrew Block (United States) - 21 December 2012
Taken at Frye Mtn. W.M.A., Montville, Waldo Co., ME, on 25 November 2012. Growing on a dead balsam fir.
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Andrew Block (United States) - 21 December 2012
Taken at Frye Mtn. W.M.A., Montville, Waldo Co., ME, on 25 November 2012. Growing on a dead balsam fir.
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Andrew Block (United States) - 21 December 2012
Taken at Frye Mtn. W.M.A., Montville, Waldo Co., ME, on 25 November 2012. Growing on a dead balsam fir.
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MirosĊaw Wantoch-Rekowski (Poland) - 02 December 2010
Rezerwat Jar rzeki Raduni.Kaszuby-Poland
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David Edington (United Kingdom) - 13 October 2008
Over a period from early April to end of May 2008 in areas near Newbury/Greenham Common, Berks our fungus group found several examples of brightly coloured brackets on alnus, betula and pinus. Conjecture and debate ensued on various forums until eventually specimens and photographs, on all three different substrates, were sent to RBG Kew. They were all verified by Dr Roberts as Fomitopsis pinicola. (Image attached, and others available)
Regards
David Edington
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