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Turkey Tail

Trametes versicolor

Photo by Psilo
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Field Notes

Description:

The second I spotted this fungus, I immediately thought of the turkey tail fungus, also known as Trametes versicolor.
I took the true turkey tail test on http://www.mushroomexpert.com/trametes_versicolor.html and the hypothesis seems to stand. Also I tried to do a pore test on a piece of white paper and nothing showed up, the pores of turkey tail are white, another characteristic.

Habitat:

I found growing on an unidentified log, I couldn't tell what kind it was. I even looked around for alive similarities to help me identify the log, but no luck

Notes:

Interesting facts about the turkey tail fungus:
a good diagram for the many uses of the turkey tail is at http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uH8JDRwUtr0/ScJtCUFI5cI/AAAAAAAAAfA/qqfGGFxRJ…
http://procezzed.blogspot.com/2012/02/turkey-tail-trametes-versicolor.h…

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Comments (2)

Absolutely! I'm learning as I go!
Thank you for all the information you posted about this find. I learned a lot :-)

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