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Description:

I found what I thought could be Formes fomentarius (Horse's hoof) or a similar looking species. The first photo is of a piece of the surface of the fungus soaked in a drop of potassium hydroxide! Can anyone tell me if this is F.fomentarius from this pic?!

Notes:

According to wikipedia, in order to positively identify F.fomentarius you can take a small piece of the suface of the fungus and it will turn RED when you put a drop of potassium hydroxide on it. This looks kinda brown (see second photo)...?

The last photo is of another fungus that was growing on the same tree stump

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (3)
AlexKonig
the 3+4 picture should be fam. "ganoderma" (look for species : "adspersum" or similair one). pic2 is a too young conk pic 5 - can i not really recoginze, but i doubt it's neither ganoderma or fomes.
Lipase
yeah you might be right I used 2 or 3 drops from a pipette, it was a 25% solution.
Mark Ridgway
Yep... definitely brown. Our fungi hotshots aren't around at the moment. Maybe you used too much :)

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PublishedJuly 5, 2012

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