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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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Sotticka
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Vsterbottens Ln, Sverige
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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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Also known as Fomes officinalis and as Agarikon. This fungus causes Brown Heart Rot in conifers, mainly old growth. Photo from Gambier Island, British Columbia.
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A variable bracket fungus with angular pores, reported from Europe and North America. Photo from southwestern British Columbia.
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Near Tofino, Vancouver Island. Some consider this the same as Postia guttulata, although placed in a different family.
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Young specimens on Mt. Elphinstone, southwestern British Columbia.
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Rivas, Nicaragua
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Also known as Tyromyces caesius, in fact it has been placed in several genera. This is an annual fungus appearing on dead conifers in North America and also in Europe, where it is called the Conifer Blueing Bracket.
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Vsterbottens Ln, Sverige
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Vsterbottens Ln, Sverige
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This fungus causes Heart Rot on conifer logs. Photos from Mt. Elphinstone, British Columbia.
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Colors leaking from a wet piece of Dyer's Polypore, which yields Green, Yellow and Brown natural dyes.
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This is a widespread conifer root parasite, causing Butt Rot. It yields green, brown and yellow natural dyes. Photo from near Gibson, British Columbia.