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Dryad’s Saddle

Polyporus Squamosus

Photo by antondazomb
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

Identification: Fan-shaped with central stalk, white-yellow with brown
scales, white pore surface

Season of fruiting: Spring-fall

Ecosystem function: White heart rot of hardwood trees

Edibility: Inedible

Fungal note: It was estimated that a single fruit body of this fungus
could produce 100 billion spores.

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