Identifying Your Polypores
3.14
Berkeley's polypore
Bondarzewia berkeley
Frequency
Rare
Habitat
100 deciduous trees, parasitic on roots and live stumps and subsequently decomposes them.
Annual.
Cap
Yellowish to tan, glabrous to finely tomentose, not zoned, sometimes radially streaked.
Margin
Concolor with the cap.
Tubes
Large, round to angular, thick-walled, decurrent.
Pores and Pore Surface
Cream to tan.
Stalk
Up to 8 cm in diameter, lateral, often branched.
Flesh
Pale buff, unzoned, immutable.
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These photos were taken in May; These are old fruiting bodies that do not have the colours of growing fruiting bodies.
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