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Ganoderma sp
Cap: 2-30 cm; at first irregularly knobby or elongated, but by maturity more or less fan-shaped; with a shiny, varnished surface often roughly arranged into lumpy "zones"; red to reddish brown when mature; when young often with zones of bright yellow and white toward the margin. Pore Surface: Whitish, becoming dingy brownish in age; usually bruising brown; with 4-7 tiny (nearly invisible to the naked eye) circular pores per mm; tubes to 2 cm deep. Stem: Sometimes absent, but more commonly present; 3-14 cm long; up to 3 cm thick; twisted; equal or irregular; varnished and colored like the cap; often distinctively angled away from one side of the cap.
Tree in Wichita Forest.
Spotted on Apr 21, 2015
Submitted on Jun 23, 2015
2 Comments
I've run across some before, but they were growing from tree roots and had more of a stem, so looked somewhat different.
Beautiful specimen! I've yet to come across Reishi.