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location: North America |
edibility: Inedible |
fungus colour: Brown |
normal size: over 15cm |
cap type: Other |
stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent, Stem much longer than cap diameter |
flesh: Pore material cannot be seperated from flesh of the cap |
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish |
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground, Grows on wood |
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Polyporus radicatus Schw. Cap 3.5-25cm across, circular, convex to sunken; yellowish brown to soot brown; dry, velvety to scurfy. Tubes 1-5mm deep, decurrent. Pores 2-3 per mm, angular; whitish to yellowish. Stem 60-140 x 5-25mm, central, with a long black rooting base; dingy yellow; scurfy to slightly scaly. Flesh white, dense. Spores ovoid to ellipsoid, smooth, 12-15 x 6-8µ. Deposit white. Habitat usually singly on the ground around stumps or attached to buried roots. Not common. Found in central and eastern North America. Season August-October. Not edible. |
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Terri Duda (United States) - 17 October 2013
Found in Sweetwater Creek State Park near Atlanta GA
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