North Vancouver, Capilano River Regional Park, half way through Giant Fir trail
Latitude
49.356194
Longitude
-123.112343
Altitude
70 m
Date
28/10/2023 (DD/MM/YYYY)
GeneBank Accession Number
PP550898
Morphological Description
Collector
Wensen Wang
Number
WW.GA.20231028
Other Collectors
Kiana Bowen, Adam Gierej
Determined by
Wensen Wang
Host Substratum
side of a trunk of a very large, decaying, fallen conifer
Notes
Underside bruising instantly brown and keeping the bruise, young specimen. In cross section, the body is white and spongy, hymenium layer is tougher and dark brown, and cuticle is light brown and very hard. Verified with "Mushrooms of British Columbia" (MacKinnon & Luther) Note that the mushroom shaped bruise was drawn by the collector, and did not occur naturally.
Habitat
temperate rainforest of Western Hemlock, Western Red-cedar and Douglas-fir
DNA sequence in GeneBank
Name of Sequencer
Specimen Images
Cap shape when mature
4 cylindrical
phylum
Basidiomycota
material collected
pored wood decay fungus
morphology summary
Material collected: pored wood decay fungus
Cap shape when mature: 4 cylindrical
