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Pine Conk
Phellinus pini
40.8717, -3.76948
Field Notes
Description:
A very destructive fungus that attacks the heartwood of living trees, resulting in "conk rot" causing more timber loss than any other fungus.
The bracket is 2-20cm across and 1-15cm thick; hoof-shaped, fan-shaped, or shelf-like. The colour is tawny to dark reddish brown or brownish black in age, with the margin often brighter. It is hard, crusty, rough or cracked, minutely hairy, generally curved.
Tubes up to 6mm deep. Pores circular to angular; dingy yellow-tawny. Stem minute or none.
The flesh is tough; tawny to tan or ochre.
Season perennial.
Not edible.
Habitat:
singly or in rows on living or recently dead coniferous trunks.
Notes:
Camera Model: NIKON D300
Exposure Time: 1/125 sec., f/8
ISO 1 EV below 200
Focal Length: 90.0 mm
Objective lens: Tamron SP 90 AF f/2.8 72E
Flash fired, compulsory flash mode, return light detected
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