Hairy Bracket

Description:

Yet another turkey tail look-alike, Trametes hirsuta features a whitish and grayish, hirsute cap surface. Its margin is often brownish, which helps to separate it from Trametes pubescens, which can sometimes look similar (and which is also usually a little less hairy)--and its pore surface features 3-4 circular to slightly angular pores per mm, which separates it from Trametes villosa, which has larger pores that become strikingly angular and nearly tooth-like. -------------------Description: --Ecology: Saprobic on the deadwood of hardwoods (very rarely reported on conifer wood); annual; causing a white rot; growing in clusters on logs and stumps; summer and fall; widely distributed across North America. --Cap: Up to 10 cm across and 6 cm deep; semicircular, irregularly bracket-shaped, or kidney-shaped; often fusing laterally with other caps; very densely hairy; often finely, radially furrowed; with concentric zones of texture; zones with gray, whitish, and brownish shades, but usually not contrasting markedly; margin often brownish to brown or blackish. --Pore Surface: Whitish, becoming a little brownish, grayish, or yellowish with age; with 3-4 circular to angular pores per mm; tubes with fairly thick walls, to 6 mm deep. --Flesh: Insubstantial; whitish; tough and corky. --Odor and Taste: Not distinctive. --Chemical Reactions: KOH on flesh negative to dull yellow. --Spore Print: White. --Microscopic Features: Spores 6-9 x 2-2.5 µ; smooth; cylindric; inamyloid. Cystidia absent. Hyphal system trimitic. -Coriolus hirsutus is a synonym. ( http://www.mushroomexpert.com/trametes_h... )--->mushroomexpert

Habitat:

location: North America, Europe edibility: Inedible fungus colour: White to cream, Yellow, Grey to beige normal size: Less than 5cm cap type: Other stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent flesh: Mushroom has distinct or odd smell (non mushroomy) spore colour: White, cream or yellowish habitat: Grows on wood Coriolus hirsutus (Wulf. ex Fr.) Quél. syn. Trametes hirsuta (Wulf. ex Fr.) Pilát. Striegelige Tramete Polypore hirsute Bracket 4–10cm across, 2–6cm wide, 0.5–1cm thick, single or in overlapping groups; upper surface covered in silvery hairs, concentrically zoned and contoured, whitish to yellow-brown or grey when young, greying with age. Flesh tough and leathery, white. Taste bitter, smell slightly of aniseed when fresh. Tubes 1–5mm long, white to yellowish. Pores 2–4 per mm, subcircular, white at first later cream, often tinted grey. Spores whitish, ellipsoid to subcylindric, 5.5–7.5 x 1.5–2.5um. Hyphal structure trimitic. Habitat on dead wood of deciduous trees especially on fallen beech trunks in exposed situations. Season all year. Rare. Not edible. Found In Europe. ( http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/gallery/D... )-->rogersmushrooms

Notes:

( http://www.mycobank.org/MycoTaxo.aspx?Li... ), ( http://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/GSD... ), ---old specimen already discolored through algae.