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Polypores, brackets & crusts

12 specimens across 4 sites

Wood-inhabiting shelves, hooves and paint-like crusts with pored or smooth undersides. Gilled wood-dwellers live under Gilled mushrooms on wood instead.

Massasoit Rd area 3

Perennial polypore on an oak trunkPerennial polypore on an oak trunkGanoderma sp. · Oct 10ModerateSmall zoned bracketSmall zoned bracketTrametes or Stereum · Jul 31ModerateCinnabar polypore on oakCinnabar polypore on oakPycnoporus cinnabarinus (= Trametes cinnabarina) · Aug 1High

Elm St area 3

Zoned brackets on rockZoned brackets on rockTrametes or Stereum · Aug 6ModerateBirch polyporeBirch polyporeFomitopsis betulina or Fomes fomentarius · Aug 6ModerateCinnabar polypore on a stickCinnabar polypore on a stickPycnoporus cinnabarinus (= Trametes cinnabarina) · Aug 6High

Goodnow Rd area 3

Bracket colony among fernsBracket colony among fernsTrametes or Stereum · Aug 8Low–moderateTurkey tail on the fallen logTurkey tail on the fallen logTrametes versicolor · Aug 8Moderate–highBracket colony on the rock ledgeBracket colony on the rock ledgeTrametes or Stereum · Aug 8Low–moderate

Coldbrook Rd area 3

Bracket on a standing trunkBracket on a standing trunkUnidentified fungus · Aug 14LowTurkey tail on a fallen branchTurkey tail on a fallen branchTrametes versicolor · Aug 14HighYellow crust on a fallen logYellow crust on a fallen logUnidentified fungus · Aug 14Low