Photo 2. White, porous hymenium with toasty-brown margin. Photo 3. Close-up of rough surface. “bumpy” Photo 4. White pores, irregularly shaped. Date: 06/23/2010 Description: Rosette-like cluster with basically one main stem. Cap: ridged radially with concentric rings of brown bumps. Margin brown, overall a cream to buff color, 3 foot in diameter, some smaller (18”, 20” and 12” also growing under this particular tree). These mushrooms came up last year as well. Hymenium: tubes, cream white, flat surface, irregularly shaped. Stalk: this, vase shaped, central position, cream, smooth, velvet texture. White spore print. Fruitflies feeding. Identification: Polypore. Possibly Berkeley’s Polypore, Bondarzewia berkeleyi (Fr.) Bond. & Sing, or a related species. Polyporaceae, Aphyllophorales. Note: I saw it when it was just emerging and it did look just like the in Plate 477. “hand” Reference: Audubon Field Guide, Plates 476 and 477, description on page 447.
Photo 2. White, porous hymenium with toasty-brown margin. Photo 3. Close-up of rough “bumpy” surface. Photo 4. White pores, irregularly shaped. Date: 06/23/2010 Description: Rosette-like cluster with basically one main stem. Cap: ridged radially with concentric rings of brown bumps. Margin brown, overall a cream to buff color, 3 foot in diameter, some smaller (18”, 20” and 12” also growing under this particular tree). These mushrooms came up last year as well. Hymenium: tubes, cream white, flat surface, irregularly shaped. Stalk: this, vase shaped, central position, cream, smooth, velvet texture. White spore print. Fruitflies feeding. Identification: Polypore. Possibly Berkeley’s Polypore, Bondarzewia berkeleyi (Fr.) Bond. & Sing, or a related species. Polyporaceae, Aphyllophorales. Note: I saw it when it was just emerging and it did look just like the “hand” in Plate 477. Reference: Audubon Field Guide, Plates 476 and 477, description on page 447.