When: 2016-12-28
Collection location: Cumberland Co., Maine, USA [Click for map]
Who: Ian
Notes:
This was found growing on the dirt walls of a makeshift root cellar. The dirt contains some pine needles and other organic debris, and there may have been some buried wood nearby. There were three patches, each 2-6 inches wide, growing within two feet of each other. The outsides look like mycelium, but the centers of the patches look like hymenium – in some places it resembles pores, in others teeth.
Update: Agar culture of this has pores, 2-4 per mm. When turned upside down, it drops spores. Spore print white. Spores ellipsoid to subglobose, ganodermoid.
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| Could Be | 1.0 | 5.20 | 1 | (Heelsplitter) | |||||
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| Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
1.29 | 43.00% | |||||||
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| I’d Call It That | 3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Could Be | 1.0 | 3.94 | 1 | (Ian) | |||||
| Doubtful | -1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Not Likely | -2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| As If! | -3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
0.80 | 26.58% | |||||||
Comments
Add CommentIIRC, this sort of margin is called “fimbriate”. If you want to key this out you can check out Gilbertson & Ryvarden’s “North American Polypores” here although this may require microscopy.
http://mushroomobserver.org/image/show_image/709713?obs=265621&q=1nW1
I can’t tell if it is forming pores or just a reticulate form of mycelium. Clamp connections present.