Image of Bjerkandera fumosa (Pers.) P. Karst. 1879

Description:

Slo.: okata bjerkandera - Habitat: Light mixed wood with some ground vegetation, flysh bedrock, flat terrain, mostly in shade, average precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 440 m (1.450 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: fallen, to some degree rotten, trunk of a deciduous tree, overgrown with mosses. - Comment: Many fruit bodies. These are young specimens. Odor 'mushroomy'. Basidiocarps annual. Spores were not obtained. Thanks to Irene Andersson, MushroomObserver.com for identification. Identification is not completely certain. - Ref.: (1) Personal communication Irene Andersson, MushroomObserver.com (2) A.Bernicchia, Polyporaceae s.l., Fungi Europaei 10, Edizioni Candusso (2005), p 141 (3) D.Arora, Mushrooms Demystified, Ten Speed Press, Berkeley (1986), p 596 (4) http://www.naturspaziergang.de/Pilze.htm (5) http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/r157182.htm