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Unknown fungus

Habitat:

Woods of the Poconos near farmland.

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6 Comments

AlexKonig
AlexKonig 12 years ago

hi carol, i found something, it looks for me much like a member from the family "inonotus". i wanted to say look for some local species . here some links ( http://www.mycobank.org/MycoTaxo.aspx?Li... )-->(the funny thing is: was searching in my books, canot send you the book therefore have i to look at the internet, found something, AND there is exactly the picture i had in the book [the i-sites has taken the pictures from the autor of the book i have !!lol? ] ), ( http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&q=... ), ( http://www.messiah.edu/Oakes/fungi_on_wo... ), ( http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&q=... ), good luck further. :)

AlexKonig
AlexKonig 12 years ago

btw- better is polypore (it has pores beneath), shelf-fungus can aslo point to "pleurotes {oyster} " which have gills

AlexKonig
AlexKonig 12 years ago

neither, i hope you haven't cook him yet. :) will look the next hours, now i have some own postings to do. till later .

CarolSnowMilne
CarolSnowMilne 12 years ago

Either chicken of the woods or hen of the woods fungus. Unsure. A type of shelf fungus. HELP?

CarolSnowMilne
CarolSnowMilne 12 years ago

Thanks so much, it might be Hen of the Woods. Fungi is so difficult to identify.

pshea99
pshea99 12 years ago

Hen-of-the-woods?

Carol Snow Milne
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Carol Snow Milne

Pennsylvania, USA

Spotted on Mar 8, 2012
Submitted on Mar 8, 2012

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