Growing from fallen decorticate hardwood branch; shelf caps @1" width with wavy mazelike toothlike pore surface, pores @4-5 mm deep.
Growing on fallen black birch limb. Cap purple with KOH.
Growing on fallen oak, multiple branches spread along surface with spines @2-4mm in length. Mature, tips beginning to yellow (collected white spore print).
Fresh specimen, on fallen hardwood branch.
Growing from fallen decorticate hardwood branch; shelf caps @1" width with wavy mazelike toothlike pore surface, pores @4-5 mm deep.
On small fallen hardwood branch, individual crusts @1-2" length
The Midwest "blue cheese polypore" that has a thick bracket with hairy upper surface appears to be Postia livens, newly described from New York. http://www.mycoguide.com/guide/fungi/basi/agar/poly/dacr
Growing from fallen decorticate hardwood branch; shelf caps @1" width with wavy mazelike toothlike pore surface, pores @4-5 mm deep.
@1cm diameter orange fungus growing on underside of Tyromyces chioneus.
Last photo KOH reaction; red.
Growing on fallen oak, multiple branches spread along surface with spines @2-4mm in length. Mature, tips beginning to yellow (collected white spore print).