🇺🇸 fused polypore - 🇩🇪 Semmel-Porling - 🇪🇪 Kimp-lambaseenik - 🇷🇺 Альбатреллопсис сливающийся 9/1/24
🆔 Albatrellopsis confluens (Alb. & Schwein.) Teixeira
ℹ️ Hymenium: Pores very small, round to angular, white to cream when fresh, sometimes faintly yellowish or greenish when bruised; ~3–5 pores per mm
ℹ️ Cap: Irregularly rounded, convex to flattened or centrally depressed; often strongly fused with neighbouring caps; cream, apricot, salmon-orange to pinkish-buff or ochre, dry and smooth, sometimes cracking with age
ℹ️ Hymenium Attachment: Decurrent
ℹ️ Stipe: Short, stout, central to eccentric or lateral; whitish to cream or pinkish-buff, smooth, frequently fused with adjacent stipes in clustered fruit bodies
⚪ Spore print white
🌲 Ectomycorrhizal with conifers (spruce, boreal conifers); terrestrial on forest soil, gregarious and commonly forming large fused clusters; late summer to autumn
🍽️🥦 Edible when young but generally considered mediocre; older specimens become tough and the taste may be bitter or cabbage-like
📏 Fruit body medium to very large when clustered; individual stipes ~3–8 cm long and ~1–3 cm thick; fused masses may reach ~30–50 cm across
📐 Cap ∅ ~3–20 cm individually
🔪 Flesh cream to whitish, thick and fairly soft when fresh, becoming firm or hard when dry; often developing pale pink, salmon or brick-red tones on drying
🧪 KOH Purple on cap, pore surface and flesh
👃 Pleasant to slightly fragrant
👅 Cabbage-like, sometimes distinctly bitter
🔬 Spores ellipsoid to broadly ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, weakly amyloid, ~4–5.5 × 2.5–4 µm; basidia 4-sterigmate; cystidia absent; hyphal system monomitic with frequent clamp connections and scattered gloeoplerous hyphae
🔤 Terrestrial conifer-associated polypore forming large fused masses of apricot-salmon-coloured caps
🇺🇸 fused polypore - 🇩🇪 Semmel-Porling - 🇪🇪 Kimp-lambaseenik - 🇷🇺 Альбатреллопсис сливающийся