When: 2007-12-29
Collection location: Buttonwood, south Key Largo, Monroe Co., Florida, USA [Click for map]
Who: Jason Hollinger (pellaea)
Herbarium specimen available

Species Lists:
Mushrooms of Key Largo (39)

Notes: avg-sized shelf mushroom at base of red ironwood (Reynosia septentrionalis)
ST: none
CAP: 100mm wide, hoof, rich cinnamon brown velvet at growing margin, black concentric ridges and corky inside
FLESH: rich cinnamon brown, dry, corky, v tough, perennial
PORE: cinnamon brown, 6-7 per mm

Looks exactly like the P. rimosus that grows abundantly on dead locust up in North Carolina, but this one is growing on a live red ironwood (family Rhamnaceae), not a dead legume.

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Observation created: Sun Dec 30 10:59:06 -0800 2007
Last modified: Sun Dec 30 11:00:18 -0800 2007
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