Identifying Your Polypores
3.13
Wooly velvet polypore
Onnia tomentosa
Frequency
Infrequent
Habitat
On living coniferous wood, roots and base.
Parasite.
Annual.
Cap
Depressed in the centre, tomentose to finely felted, yellowish-brown, 'cinnamon to ferruginous brown. Sometimes ornamented with secondary caps.
Margin
Thin, acute, wavy, paler.
Tubes
Round to angular. Large, 2 to 4 per mm, thick walls at first becoming thin and lacerated with age.
Pores and Pore Surface
Pale buff, then grey and brown with age.
Stalk
Short, off-centre or lateral, often fused with others at the base.
Stalk Feature
Felted, rusty brown or colorless on the cap.
Flesh
Golden yellow to yellowish-brown, zoned, duplex:
- soft and spongy upper part,
- Firm and fibrous lower part.
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