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Turkey Tail

Trametes Versicolor

Description:

Pores on hymenium, cap is offset or indistinct, hymenium is decurrent, lacks a stipe, spore print is white to yellow, ecology is saprotrophic, edible. Other names: coriolus versicolor, polyporus versicolor

Notes:

I saw this on a tree just outside our house.

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2 Comments

alicelongmartin
alicelongmartin 11 years ago

This really pops, I am not into fungi on the whole, but I have always liked to Turkey tail varieties!

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 11 years ago

These dark ones look quite dramatic.

AlvinCalicaran
Spotted by
AlvinCalicaran

Caloocan, Philippines

Spotted on Sep 16, 2012
Submitted on Sep 16, 2012

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