Identifying Your Polypores
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Common crust fungus
Irpex lacteus
Frequency
Frequent
Habitat
On wood and dead branches of deciduous trees, rarely conifers
Cap
Spreading and reflective, densely tomentose, white to pale buff, greyish with age.
Margin
Acute, wavy, concolorous on the surface of the cap.
Spines
Angular at the very beginning, quickly lacerated to give flattened prickles.
Hymenium surface
Pale white to tan.
Flesh
Tenacious, azonated, white to pale tan, up to 2 mm thick
Basal Mycelium
White.
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