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Polyporus floccipes.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Zäher Porling
Polyporus floccipes Mushroom
Ref No: 8793
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location: Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: White to cream, Grey to beige
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Distinctly scaly
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

Polyporus floccipes Rostk. syn. P. squamosus f. coronatus (Rostk.) Pilát syn. P. lentus Berk. Zäher Porling. Cap 2–10(15)cm across, semicircular or circular, depressed above the point of attachment to the stem, yellow-cream to light cinnamon covered in hairy scales with darkening tips, thick and fleshy. Stem 5–60 x 5–15mm, lateral, off-centre or central, pallid, covered at the base in bundles of stiff white cottony hairs. Flesh white. Tubes very short, decurrent far down the stem, pallid to ochraceous-cream. Pores 2–2.5 x 1–1.5mm, polygonal or longitudinal, ochraceous-cream. Spores hyaline, ellipsoid-cylindric, 9–14 x 4–5.5um. Hyphal structure dimitic with generative and binding hyphae; generative hyphae with clamp-connections. Habitat on fallen twigs of deciduous trees. Season spring. Uncommon. Not edible. Found In Europe.

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