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Crowded Parchment

Stereum complicatum

Description:

Fruiting Body: Individually up to about 2 cm across, but usually fused together; fan-shaped, semicircular, irregular--or not infrequently resupinate (lacking a cap structure) to effused-reflexed (resupinate with a folded over edge); densely velvety, hairy, or with appressed hairs (sometimes nearly smooth in age); with concentric zones of color and texture; colors ranging from tan to orange-brown, pinkish, or cinnamon; laterally attached, without a stem. Undersurface: Smooth; orange. Flesh: Insubstantial; tough.

Habitat:

Habitat in overlapping or laterally fused groups on dead twigs and stumps of hardwoods, especially oak. Found in Europe and throughout North America except the Rocky Mountains.

Notes:

Add'l web site: http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/gallery/D...

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2 Comments

QWMom
QWMom 11 years ago

Thanks! Sure thing - just left a comment for you on your spotting. :)

Very nice spotting QWMom,congrats and thanks for sharing.
i have a very similar spotting taken today that i id based in previous spottings id by other users,can you give me your opinion on this ? http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/201...

QWMom
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QWMom

Georgia, USA

Spotted on Mar 23, 2013
Submitted on Mar 26, 2013

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