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I brought two big Giant Polypores or in latin Meripilus Sumstinei or Meripilus Giganteus like this european version is called. this time! My Fungi Friday article for today is about two Giant Polypores. These big fellas were growing right at the foot of two living trees. Again, I had to go through some bushes to find and shoot them, but it was worth it. No skin or clothing and no mushroom was harmed in the process. As always, in case some of you recognizes that fungi and knows better feel free to correct me in the comments.
My first thought was Turkey Tail, but the mushroom app said otherwise.
A little research about the Giant Polypores mushroom
Meripilus Sumstinei / Meripilus Giganteus, the black-staining polypore, is a large wood-decay fungus in Polyporales and Meripilaceae. It forms rosette-like clusters of overlapping, fan-shaped caps at the bases of hardwoods, especially oaks and beeches, and may also occur on conifers. It acts both as a parasite of living trees and as a saprobe on dead wood, causing white rot. Fruiting bodies can exceed 30 cm across. Individual caps are 5–20 cm wide, whitish to brownish, radially streaked, and concentrically zoned. Their most distinctive feature is rapid black bruising of the flesh and a pore surface. The young pore surface is white, later becoming tan, with 6–8 pores per millimetre. When young it’s edible as far as my app says (be careful though and doublecheck!). It resembles the hen of the woods (Grifola frondosa) mushroom, but has larger caps, smaller pores, and black staining.
That‘s a lot of mushroom.
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FUNGI FACTS:
Fungi are more closely related to animals than to plants: They share a common ancestor with the animal kingdom dating back roughly a billion years, and their cell walls contain chitin, the same material found in insect exoskeletons.
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Same same, but different.
This one is a bit more clean and less flat as the first one.
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This one is growing higher.
Some nice and clean patterns on this one.
It looks silky, but it’s not.
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