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Smoky Polypore

Bjerkandera Adusta (Polyporus Adustus)

Photo by antondazomb
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Field Notes

Description:

Identification: Clusters, small, white to grayish, velvety caps, pore
surface gray to black

Season of fruiting: Spring-fall

Ecosystem function: White sapwood rot of dead hardwood trees

Edibility: Inedible

Fungal note: Fruit bodies can revive after long periods of drought.
Pores of fruit body are very small (5-7 pores per millimeter).

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