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Trametes pubescens

Trametes pubescens

Photo by QWMom
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Field Notes

Description:

Cap: Up to 8 cm across and 5 cm deep; semicircular, irregularly bracket-shaped, or kidney-shaped; sometimes fusing laterally with other caps; velvety to finely velvety, sometimes becoming nearly bald with age; often finely, radially lined and furrowed, especially on the margin; cream colored; sometimes with faint textural zones but without contrasting zones of color.

Pore Surface: Creamy, becoming yellowish with age; with 3-5 angular pores per mm; tubes to 6 mm deep.

Flesh: Insubstantial; whitish; tough and corky.

Habitat:

Ecology: Saprobic on the deadwood of hardwoods (rarely reported on conifer wood); annual; causing a white rot; growing in clusters on logs and stumps; summer and fall; widely distributed across North America.

Notes:

Spotted along a hiking trail at Camp Windy Waters on Lake Allatoona
Add'l website ref:
http://www.mushroomexpert.com/trametes_pubescens.html

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Comments (4)

Hi QWMom... I just removed it for you... Beautiful colors!
Sorry :( It won't let me remove that mission. This is so frustrating! (It happens all the time to my postings!)
Nice spotting. Definitely not a dragonfly or damselfly, though. I'm sure this was a typo. Thanks for tweaking your post!

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