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Rooting Polypore
Polyporus radicatus
34.58, -84.69
Field Notes
Description:
These two mushrooms were growing gregariously. One is aged, while the other is young. The younger specimen is brown to cinnamon-toned and slightly fuzzy. The underside of cap is white to cream with very flat, squamous pores that extend down the stipe. The stipe is more of a blush to pale gold tone. Flesh is white. No bruising occurs on cap, flesh, or stipe.
The other specimen is GIGANTIC, and some wildlife had already gotten to it. The stipe has darkened to a dark cinnamon brown, and the cap was less fuzzy (and more leathery) than the younger specimen's. Stipe was around 7 cm diameter at thickest point. Height of mushroom was around 22 cm!
Polyporus radicatus seems terrestrial (I was even tricked into thinking they were boletes of some sort), but it is actually saprobic on hardwood roots. This is a first time spotting on Project Noah.
Habitat:
Growing below oaks in a dense mixed hardwood/pine forest
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