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A widespread polypore than seems to occur in two forms. In this form it is known as the Orange Sponge Polypore.
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This form of the species produces tubes in downward cascades. Photo from Robert's Creek area, British Columbia.
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When young, this neotropical polypore is soft, and can grow around obstacles. Photo from near Argentina-Brazil border.
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A soft conk polypore that some plants can grow right through. A widespread species in the Neotropics.
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SO557146. Forest of Dean Gloucestershire
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SO557146. Forest of Dean Gloucestershire
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Hingham, Massachusetts, United States
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Sotticka
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Vsterbottens Ln, Sverige
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Dlinza Forest Aerial Boardwalk, Eshowe, KwaZulu-Natal, SOUTH AFRICA
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An unusual fungus with pores that go from round to linear striations as seen here.
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Ketchikan, Alaska
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Maine, 28th November 2008, mixed coastal forest. The identification is tentative and I would welcome confirmation or correction.
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Maine, 28th November 2008, mixed coastal forest. The identification is tentative and I would welcome confirmation or correction.
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Maine, 28th November 2008, mixed coastal forest. The identification is tentative and I would welcome confirmation or correction.
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- Ther internal part is cream and hard of sour scent or to tobacco and the flavor disagreeably resinous. Spore ellipsoidal 6-9 X 3-5 m, of yellowish clear, flat color and non amiloides. Wooden dead parasite, generally of pines - of there their name. Also appears in alive and sick trees with a brown rottedness. Not edible, because of flavor and hard and fibrous consistency.CONFUSIONS: - A variety, F.pinicola var. effusa is similar to another mushroom parasite of the coniferous ones, Heterobasidion annosum, darker in general and with the sharp and not obtuse margin as F.pinicola and much more virulent in its attack to the tree that usually invades from the roots. - With the gender Fomes, especially with F.fomentarius but east believes a whitish and not brown podredumble. The pileo is also gray resinous with brown but never red orange areas. The species has been used as "tinder" for fire. It was also used in a preparation to treat wounds.
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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A stick insect is standing on the lower (pore) surface of this conk on a fallen log.
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A parchment fungus, somewhat bleached and dessicated.
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Alcornocales National Park, Andalucia, Spain. On Cork Oak
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Ganoderma resinaceum is a rare poroid fungus that persists throughout the year. The yellow resin from the edges of this large bracket hardens rapidlyHaugh Wood Herefordshire
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Ganoderma resinaceum is a rare poroid fungus that persists throughout the year. The yellow resin from the edges of this large bracket hardens rapidlyHaugh Wood Herefordshire
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