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Phellinus ferruginosus.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

Phellinus ferruginosus Mushroom
Ref No: 8555
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location: North America
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Red or redish or pink, Brown
normal size: 5-15cm
stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent
flesh: Pore material cannot be seperated from flesh of the cap
spore colour: Light to dark brown
habitat: Grows on wood

Phellinus ferruginosus (Fr.) Pat. Fruit body 4-15cm across, 0.5-1.5cm thick, growing closely attached to the wood, spreading widely and irregularly with little swellings along the margin; cinnamon to rusty brown; leathery and flexible. Tubes 1-3mm deep in each layer, up to l0mm in total; tawny or umber-brown. Pores 5-6 per mm, round and entire on horizontal parts, split elsewhere; surface even, with little swellings or slightly wavy; tawny to umber-brown with yellowish-brown margin in growing specimens. No stem. Flesh irregular, thickness up to 5mm, loose, cottony; cinnamon to rusty brown. Spores broadly ellipsoid, nonamyloid, 4-5 x 3-3.5µ. Habitat on dead hardwoods. Found in northern North America. Season annual to perennial. Not edible.

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