Identifying Your Polypores
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Dyer’s polypore
Phaeolus hispidoides, Phaeolus schweinitzii
Frequency
Frequent
Habitat
Parasitic, on coniferous wood, sometimes deciduous trees; also helps to decompose dead trees.
On the ground or on the trunks lying down or vertical.
Annual.
Cap
Hairy to shaggy, bumpy, often several lobes overlap, orange at first, yellowish-brown later, blackish at the end.
Margin
Sulphur-yellow to yellowish-green, darker with age
Tubes
Angular, large, 1 to 2 per mm, thick-walled.
Pores and Pore Surface
Orange then greenish to rusty brown, decurrent.
Stalk
Central to the ground, short and stocky. Lateral on the trunks, very short, almost absent.
Stalk Feature
Covered by the decurrent tubes.
Flesh
Yellowish-brown at first, dark rust with age, soft, fibrous, unzoned.
Basal Mycelium
Brown.
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Their fruiting bodies are sought after for the colouring of the fibres; they give beautiful yellow to brown colours.
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