Rogers Mushrooms - Abortiporus biennis Mushroom


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Abortiporus biennis. Click a photo to enlarge it. back to list

synonyms: Blushing Rosette, Daedalea biennis, Heteroporus biennis, Rõt likacsosgomba

Ref No: 7912
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Ref No: 7913
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location: North America, Europe

edibility: Inedible

fungus colour: White to cream

normal size: 5-15cm

cap type: Other

stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent

spore colour: White, cream or yellowish

habitat: Grows on the ground, Grows on wood

Abortiporus biennis (Bull. ex Fr.) Sing. syn Heteroporus biennis (Bull. ex Fr.) Laz. syn. Daedalea biennis Bull. ex Fr., Blushing Rosette, Rõt likacsosgomba. Fruit body variable, irregularly top-shaped, or rosette-like, or fused together into amorphous masses, 3-9cm across, 0.5-1.5cm thick, flattened to concave, surface downy to felty, whitish soon becoming pinkish. Tubes 2-6mm long, decurrent. Pores 1-2 per mm, angular and irregular, becoming maze-like, whitish bruising reddish. Spores elliptic-ovate to subglobose, 4-7 x 3.5-4.5µ. Long undulating worm-like refractive gloeocystidia present in the hymenium. In addition to the normal basidiospores the fungus also produces similarly shaped chlamydospores in the flesh and hymenium. Habitat on the ground from roots or wood chips of deciduous trees. Season autumn, annual. Occasional. Not edible. Distribution, America and Europe.

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Edit Szilvasy (Hungary) - 20 September 2009 2009.09.20. Budakeszi Hungary

Branislav Uzelac (Yugoslavia) - 17 March 2009 photo by Goran Miloshevich from Serbia

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