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Stereum complicatum.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

Stereum complicatum Mushroom
Ref No: 8939
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location: North America, Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Red or redish or pink, Grey to beige, Orange
normal size: Less than 5cm
cap type: Other
stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows on wood

Stereum complicatum (Fr.) Fr. Bracket 0.3-1.5cm across, fan-shaped or semicircular, with a wavy margin; pinkish or orangish to cinnamon fawn or grayish, with a paler whitish margin; silky-hairy, concentric zones and furrows, smooth and shiny near margin. Fertile surface orange, fading to cream-fawn or cinnamon fawn; smooth or slightly ridged where caps meet. Spores cylindrical to slightly curved, smooth, 5-6.5 x 2-2.5µ. Deposit white. Habitat in overlapping or laterally fused groups on dead twigs and stumps of hardwoods, especially oak. Found in Europe and throughout North America except the Rocky Mountains. Season July-January, fruit body overwinters. Not edible.

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