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Turkeytail
Trametes versicolor
51.2925, -0.643078
Field Notes
Description:
The flesh (1 - 3 mm thick) is creamy white and the fruiting bodies hard and corky/leathery. The top surface of the cap shows typical concentric zones of different colour, often rust-brown or darker brown or sometimes blackish zones. Commonly grows in tiled layers. The pore surface is whitish-light brown. The pores are round ~(2 - 5 pores per mm) but with age may twist and labyrinthine.
Older fruiting bodies are often covered by algae and can therefore appear green.
Habitat:
Found in all types of woodland and always on dead wood. No biotype preferences.
Notes:
This is a common polypore mushroom found all over the world. Versicolor meaning 'several colours' appropriately describes this mushroom due to the typical zoning of colour. This is also where the common name Turkeytail comes from, as it resembles the multiple colours in the tail of a wild turkey.
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