01/Sep/24, 4:45 PM
Raudoja veehoidla, Raudoja, Harjumaa, Estonia
Pine dominant (with young spruces) forest, om mossy ground
59°22'46.7"N 25°29'13.5"E
🔆 Mild overcast, open spot
Original Instagram postAlbatrellopsis confluens
fused polypore
- Scientific identification
- Albatrellopsis confluens (Alb. & Schwein.) Teixeira
- Family
- Albatrellaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Albatrellopsis
Names across languages
- English: fused polypore
- German: Semmel-Porling
- Finnish: Typäskääpä
- Estonian: Kimp-lambaseenik
- Russian: Альбатреллус сливающийся
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2024-09-01.
Hymenium
Pores very small, round to angular, white to cream when fresh, sometimes faintly yellowish or greenish when bruised; ~3–5 pores per mm
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
Hymenium Attachment
Decurrent
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
Spore print white
Ecology
Ectomycorrhizal with conifers (spruce, boreal conifers); terrestrial on forest soil, gregarious and commonly forming large fused clusters; late summer to autumn
Edibility
Edible when young but generally considered mediocre; older specimens become tough and the taste may be bitter or cabbage-like
Fruit body
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
Dimensions
Cap ∅ ~3–20 cm individually
Flesh
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
Chemical reactions
KOH Purple on cap, pore surface and flesh
Odour
Pleasant to slightly fragrant
Taste
Cabbage-like, sometimes distinctly bitter
Microscopy
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
Overview
Terrestrial conifer-associated polypore forming large fused masses of apricot- to salmon-coloured caps
1993). Boletim Do Instituto De Botânica, São Paulo 8: 21.
Field encounters
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