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A very beautiful funghi growing on a birch stump. I don't know anything about it, so I would be happy if someone would like to provide me with information. Thanks!
Common here in Sweden.
Spotted on Oct 22, 2006
Submitted on Feb 18, 2012
17 Comments
Alex, yes sometimes the fingers run a bit too fast ;)
Sarah, thank you!
Beautiful spotting, indeed, Galantliv!
Welcome to Project Noah!! :)
no problem , it is your call galantliv, but since we post simultaneously a get your comments to late :)
the one you set as reference here, is on my list to comment> wanted to suggest something else that stereum for him. The soortenbank specimen is an dutch one, sometimes the fungi different from by great distance. mostly the versicolor is very colorful; but as you saw also sometimes boring dark. search on google image (sweden) - for fam: polyporaceae , genus: trametes. then take a look at stereum, and decide yourself, trametes isnt marked as edible because of the woody texture but is in some culture a medicinal fungi
Alex I ment that I vote for your suggestion, but that the ones at soortenbank was older since they were darker on the top. Mine looked a bit more like nougat.
i get confused !! Way to fleshy for a trametes versicolor, but it were good for a stereum!? I choose the trametes BECAUSE it's more fleshy as the stereum!!. but ok, i said my guess!
look at this stereum (and it's definetely one):
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/900...
this one is unlikely yours since it grows on oak deadwood only
Lars, the stump is aprox 25 cm in diameter.
Alex, it could be, though the ones at soortenbank is a bit older than mine. I wish I had taken a photo from above, but at that time I was just thinking about the artwork :D
I will have to see if they will grow this year as well and be ready with the cam.
... are they edible? (More than once)
and not very clear concentric rings (as far as it is possible to detect on the pic anyway) which are also typical for versicolor
because the edges appear way too fleshy for a versicolor.
why not a versicolor ? ( http://www.soortenbank.nl/soorten.php?so... ) here a verified specimen from this species, dark colored cap- brown shades, and the white edge , underneath white pore surface,thicker than a stereum species !?! it look for me similiar !
Eassy to get confused - as i said...trametes and stereum are very close to each other in their appearance. Usually trametes are larger.
How big wwas the birch stem in diameter - just to judge the scales?
Alex, you could be right... I'm getting confused :D
As Alex said - it's also likely to be a Trametes.
But definetely not a versicolor.
People identify most Stereum as a versicolor since this trametes species comes in very various colorizations.
Thank you LarsKorb! Stereum it is then.
I googled for some Stereum Hirsutum pics, but the ones at wikipedia looks a lot more "wet" than these ones. These felt more like holding a cookie, than holding a spunge, if you know what I mean. They also stayed this shape for several months. Really lovely to look at. The Stereum complicatum pics on internet also looks more paperthin than these were.
i would not go for stereum, more likely a bracket-fungi, stereum first covered the contactpoints before developing the caps. here i see brackets growing directly at the log. take a look at trametes versicolor or other "pored" brackets. good luck
It's most likely a Stereum fungus - also likely, a Stereum hirsutum or Stereum complicatum.