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Stereum hirsutum
Fruiting body annual or short-live perennial, resupinate when young, forming thin, leathery overlapping shelves at maturity, 1-3.5 cm wide and up to 8 cm long when fused with adjacent shelves; upper surface hairy, undulate, lobed, banded orange-brown to yellow-brown, older tissue grey to greyish-brown; lower fertile surface smooth, orange-buff to pale-buff, if zoned, less conspicuously than the upper surface; flesh 0.5-1.0 mm thick, pliant when young, tough in age; stalk absent.
Fruiting in tiers and overlapping shelves on dead hardwood stumps, branches, etc., occasionally on conifer wood; fruiting throughout the mushroom season.
The small, wavy, leathery shelves of Stereum hirsutum are a common sight in Bay Area woodlands. Fresh fruitings are bright orange-brown to orange-buff, fading in age or dry weather to dull-buff or grey. As the common name suggests, Stereum hirsutum is sometimes confused with Trametes versicolor, the so called "true" Turkey Tail. The latter also has a banded upper surface, but is colored differently, usually a combination of grey, brown or cream, rarely with orange tones. More significantly, it has a pored, not smooth fertile surface. Lenzites betulina, another bracket fungus with a banded upper surface, differs in having a gill-like hymenium. Spotted in river Homem félinhos beach
Spotted on Mar 27, 2013
Submitted on Mar 28, 2013
30 Comments (1–25)
Thanks maplemoth662
Photo no. 6: is a very pretty landscape photo....
Six, very pretty photos....photo no. 1: is a very pretty photo, and a very colorful photo....a very remarkable photo....
thanks M fortune for you nice words,it's a "classic" stair way to heavan :-)
Great shots of these!
Thanks Jennifer for your nice comment
Cool!!!
Thanks Chief RedEarth for your nice words,it looks like a stair way to heaven:-)
Thanks Argy :-) i find also this similar in shape but in purple http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/169...
Lovely yellow brick road Antonio.
Thanks Lisa for your nice words,when i find this kind of formation,the down vue is allways surprising
I love the perspective on this!
Thanks Pouihi and Arlanda,for your kind words
Nice spotting, Antonio
My friends,i haved found this spotting http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/885... from http://www.projectnoah.org/users/Marta%2... ,Id by http://www.projectnoah.org/users/AlexKon...
And i think this spotting take all the thougth's i haved :-)
It's a
Hairy stereum
Stereum hirsutum
Well this is what I know as S. complicatum, http://www.mushroomexpert.com/stereum_co... and this is what I know as S. hirsutum, http://www.messiah.edu/oakes/fungi_on_wo... Both sites suggest distinction between the species is not a simple thing.
I also thought it might be Stereum complicatum similar to this: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/172... but I don't know for sure
I think S. hirsutum would be good fit, especially if the entire upper surface is pubescent.
Thanks Chesterbperry,i based my id on the pictures i saw in google images and there where many that seems to be the same,but i'am not a specialist so i take your correction and i'll check furder.do you have any idea?could be the Stereum hirsutum that QWMom talk?
That's hairs along the edges.
Thanks again for the concern :-)
this does not look like Steruem complicatum to me, it is completely smooth, and often forms large areas that are no more than a smooth crust, with no "shelves". Are those hairs I see along the edges?
QWMom,i have been searching on pictures and i think is a Stereum complicatum,tell me what you think :-)
Thanks Injica for you nice comment
Beautiful :)
No prob! (I do like the picture also from an artistic standpoint, too! I love the stripe of orange going up the tree!)
Thanks a lot QWMom,i think you are rigth,it's a Stereum hirsutum,i haved in my first one of these species a id suggestion of beeing a Trametes pubescens,in the time seeing pictures i remark that they where not very similar,but the suggestion was from a knowlegde guy and i take it,now seeing better the images i think your tip is correct,thanks again,i'll correct the several ones that i haved :-)
Hi Antonio :) Looking at this per your request. My two cents: I don't see evidence of the creamy white spore surface on the underside, so I would hesitate to call this Trametes (a polypore) without that. But I would suggest looking at the Stereums, especially Stereum hirsutum :) (I am no mycologist, but I am learning a thing or two about fungi thanks to Project Noah!) Good luck!