Biodiversity: Fungi

Chicken Mushroom, Laetiporus sulphureus, in the Polyporaceae and Aphyllophorales classifications. Its season is May through November. Its habitat is on stumps, trunks, logs of dead deciduous trees, it has also been found on the trunk and roots of living trees.

Turkey-tail, Trametes versicolor, in the Polyporaceae and Aphyllophorales families. Season is May- December, inhabiting dead deciduous trees or wounds, it has also been found on conifers. 

Crowded Parchment, Stereum complicatum, belonging in the Stereaceae and Aphyllophorales classifications. Its season is July through January and overwinters, found on dead deciduous trunks, logs and twigs.

A close- up of Crowded Parchment.

This is Mossy Maple Polypore, Oxyporus populinus, belonging to the Polyporaceae and Aphyllophorales families. Its season is year round and is usually found on wounds on the trunks of living maples, also found on other deciduous trees.

 This is most likely Pendulous-disc Polypore, Porodisculus pendulus, classified in the Polyporaceae and Aphyllophorales families. Its season is August to October, and typically is found on dead oak, hickory, walnut wood, and has also been found on pine.

These are samples on a larger log and another sample I found on a small twig. 

 

 

 

 

 

Citation: Lincoff, Gary H. National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1981. 468-96. Print.