I need a mycologist, stat!
These fungi(?) are growing on my neighbour's maple tree on the north shore of Lake Erie. They are enormous, as local fungi go (and shapely too). The lower one is ten inches wide, the upper eight.
I'd love to know what they are. I'm hoping a Circus of the Spineless or Tangled Bank reader can enlighten me. Please leave a note in the comments for everybody to see if you know what it is.
posted by philip at
3:37 PM
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Well, it looks like a polypore - instead of gills it has thousands of tiny tubes which are exactly vertical, and the spores fall out of those. Naturally, I can't find my mushroom book right away. But you might try the polypore page here. If you need to take a sport print (to see the spore colour), pick one and lay it pore side down on a sheet of paper for one to several hours. Enough spores should fall out so you can see the colour.
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