Alternative Name: Plicaturopsis crispa (Pers.: Fr.) Reid.
When: 2008-06-02
Collection location: Edgewood Blue, British Columbia, Canada [Click for map]
Who: Jason Hollinger (jason)
Herbarium specimen available

Notes: Small projecting caps, on dead alder limb. Tan and shaggy-hairy above, pale beige with broad shallow veined wrinkles below. Definitely not a gilled mushroom. Merulius, maybe? Spores are clear under LM, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re white in deposit, I guess. They are very soft and flexible, drying to almost nothing.

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Proposed Name		User		Community Vote
Polyporales sp.		jason		30% (2)
Recognized by sight
Schizophyllum commune Fr.		Mycowalt		6% (3)
Recognized by sight
Plicatura crispa (Pers.) Rea		darv		83% (1)
Recognized by sight: Lincoff has a similar photo in the Audubon book. Used references: Imazeki, Rokuya, Yoshio Otani and Tsuguo Hongo. 1988. Fungi of Japan. Yama-Kei Publishers Co., Tokyo, Japan. 623p. Lincoff, G. H. 1981. The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY. 926p.

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Created: 2008-06-04 13:51:08 By: Tom Volk (TomVolk) Summary: Schizophyllum? It looks like possibly an old Schizophyllum commune to me. Are those “gills” in pairs?

Observation created: Tue Jun 03 11:37:11 -0700 2008
Last modified: Tue Jun 03 11:39:25 -0700 2008
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