Rogers Mushrooms - Oxyporus populinus Mushroom


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Oxyporus populinus. Click a photo to enlarge it. back to list

synonyms: Pappelporling, Poplar Bracket

Ref No: 9305
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location: North America, Europe

edibility: Inedible

fungus colour: White to cream, Grey to beige

normal size: 5-15cm

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

Oxyporus populinus (Schum. ex Fr.) Donk syn. Fomes populinus (Schum. ex Fr.) Karst. syn. Fomes connatus (Weinm.) Gill. Pappelporling Poplar Bracket. Bracket 3–6cm across, 2–3cm wide, 1–4cm thick, in tiers; upper surface uneven, whitish grey to pale grey-buff often with an ochraceous tint, frequently green tinged due to being overgrown by algae or moss. Flesh white. Smell slightly fungusy. Tubes 2–4mm long in each layer, whitish at first then straw-yellow. Pores 4–7 per mm, circular or slightly angular, whitish. Cystidia in tubes thin-walled, hyaline, clavate or fusoid with encrusted apex. Spores white, subglobose, 3.5–4.5 x 3–4um. Hyphal structure monomitic; generative hyphae without clamp-connections. Habitat on trunks of deciduous trees. Season all year. Occasional. Not edible. Distribution, America and Europe.

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