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Wrinkly soft polypore


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I just found this in Stockholm, Sweden. I suppose it's a polypore. The pores are very small and even smaller toward the edges. Wrinkly, almost like gills. Soft, fleshy texture. Found growing on a dead tree of unknown species, among living rowan trees. Smells like button mushrooms.

Photos of top, bottom, habitat and a little buddy i left sitting.

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Interesting how what seems to be a poroid hymenium is wrinkled into gill-like folds. I think I have have seen similar examples in genus Picipes. When young, Picipes fruit bodies are composed of somewhat flexible flesh (becomes rigid in age). Growth on wood agrees with this proposal. Picipes badius and P. melanopus are two species. The convex shape of the cap is a bit unusual for Picipes. But this may be because the mushroom is young and the cap has not yet expanded. Not a lot of confidence here, but I think this idea is worth considering. 

Young fruit bodies of Boletopsis are flexible, but mushrooms in this genus are terrestrial. 

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On 4/30/2020 at 4:08 AM, Dave W said:

Interesting how what seems to be a poroid hymenium is wrinkled into gill-like folds. I think I have have seen similar examples in genus Picipes. When young, Picipes fruit bodies are composed of somewhat flexible flesh (becomes rigid in age). Growth on wood agrees with this proposal. Picipes badius and P. melanopus are two species. The convex shape of the cap is a bit unusual for Picipes. But this may be because the mushroom is young and the cap has not yet expanded. Not a lot of confidence here, but I think this idea is worth considering. 

Young fruit bodies of Boletopsis are flexible, but mushrooms in this genus are terrestrial. 

I'm not sure if it's appropriate to "bump" this thread only to say thank you for the input. Anyway, thank you for the input.

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