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Ganoderma resinaceum.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Harziger Lackporling, Lacquered Bracket
Ganoderma resinaceum Mushroom
Ref No: 7759
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location: North America, Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Red or redish or pink, Brown
normal size: over 15cm
cap type: Other
stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent
flesh: Flesh discolours when cut, bruised or damaged, Pore material cannot be seperated from flesh of the cap
spore colour: Light to dark brown
habitat: Grows on wood

Ganoderma resinaceum Boud. ex Pat. syn. Fomes resinaceus (Boud.) Sacc. Harziger Lackporling Lacquered Bracket. Bracket 10–45cm across and up to 10cm thick behind, semicircular, sessile, or on a thick rudimentary stem; upper surface concentrically grooved, strikingly glossy as if varnished, red-brown or maroon to almost black, margin obtuse and cream-coloured. Flesh soft, pale wood-coloured. Tubes 5–20mm long, rusty-brown. Pores 2–2.5 per mm, circular, pale greyish bruising brown. Spores brown, ellipsoid-ovate and truncate at one end, 9–11 x 5–7um. Hyphal structure trimitic; generative hyphae with clamp-connections. Habitat on stumps of oak. Season all year. Rare. Not edible. Distribution, America and Europe.

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