Identifying Your Polypores
3.2
Blushing rosette
Abortiporus biennis
Frequency
Rare
Habitat
On dead deciduous wood, rarely coniferous: old stumps, buried bark, around dead or living roots.
Annual.
Fruit body
Of variable shape and size:
a) formed of 2-10 interlocking caps, fused at the base of the stipe or spread out in a rosette from a rudimentary stem, tan to reddish in color.
b) resembles nodules or cones agglomerated and covered with pores, often exuding orange-colored droplets.
Margin paler, often wrinkled, wavy or lobed.
Tubes
Angular to daedaloid, irregular, 1-3(4) per mm, sometimes larger, thick-walled and entire at first, thin to lacerated with age. Often decurrent on the stipe.
Pores and Pore Surface
Whitish to pale buff, becoming pinkish to brownish when wrinkled.
Stalk
Centered to lateral, relatively stocky, radicant, nodulous, buff to brownish.
Flesh
Duplex:
- the upper part soft, fibrous, pale buff,
-the lower part firm and cream-colored.
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