Created: 2008-05-23 11:42:53
By: Paul Calvert (calvert)
Summary: Thick gills

As I wrote when I proposed the name, the thickness of the “gills” is distinctive for Daedalea quercina. Also you can see that it is “mazelike”. The gills of Lenzites betulina are much thinner (tough but still thin).

Created: 2008-05-22 14:55:02
By: Tom Volk (TomVolk)
Summary: Lenzites betulina

The top of the last picture looks exactly like Lenzites betulina should, but the other pictures look odd, possibly because of the angle at which they are growing on the log.

Created: 2007-01-31 22:46:32
By: Darvin DeShazer (darv)
Summary: Lenzites

It looks like Lenzites betulina. Lenzites is monomitic and Daedalea is trimitic so if it could be collected and brought to the SOMA meeting on Feb 22, I would be happy to check it with a microscope. Trimitic has three different types of hyphae and they are very easy to spot with a scope.

Created: 2007-01-30 20:53:58
By: Nathan Wilson (nathan)
Summary: I lean towards Lenzites

Having read over Arora and looking at various images on the web, I think these are more gill-like than maze-like. I find it really easy to imagine your specimens maturing into something like Darvin’s shot:

http://mushroomobserver.org/...>
http://mushroomobserver.org/...

Created: 2007-01-30 10:48:27
By: John Kirkpatrick (natashadak)
Summary: Thought I’d done it

I was concerned I had somehow deleted it …

Re these specimens — they both seem to be younger than most of the google examples except for this one:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/...

I thought the Lenzites betulina suggestion was a good one but was hoping for more input.

Created: 2007-01-29 19:34:03
By: Debbie Drechsler (debdrex)
Summary: I confess!

After looking more closely at the “gill” structure in Doug’s image began to doubt my original ID. It doesn’t seem quite the same as the Lenzites betulina. I’ve not seen Daedalea quercina in person but Doug’s specimen looks more like the images of it, online, than Lenzites betulina. Besides I’ve been dying to see what happens when you select “Destroy”. It’s so dramatic!

Created: 2007-01-29 16:17:35
By: Nathan Wilson (nathan)
Summary: What happened to debdrex comment about Lenzites betulina?

That sounded like a reasonable suggestion to me as does the original suggestion. In this case I’d need to lookup the species to be sure which one it is.