14/Sep/23, 5:19 PM
Raudoja, Harjumaa, Eesti
Mixed forest spruce-pine part, on old spruce trunk
59°22'46.4"N 25°28'56.2"E
🔆 Overcast, deep forest shade
Original Instagram postFuscopostia fragilis
Brown-staining Cheese Polypore
- Scientific identification
- Fuscopostia fragilis (Fr.) B.K.Cui, L.L.Shen & Y.C.Dai
- Family
- Dacryobolaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Fuscopostia
Names across languages
- English: Brown-staining Cheese Polypore
- German: Braunfleckende Saftporling
- Finnish: Tahrakääpä
- Estonian: Tumenev tümak
- Russian: Постия хрупкая
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2023-09-14.
Hymenium
Pores, round, 3–5 per mm, cream to pale yellow when young, becoming ochre to light brown with age, bruising reddish brown
Cap
Shelflike, semicircular to kidney-shaped, surface velvety to finely hairy when young, becoming smooth with age, pale cream to light brown, often darker towards the attachment point
Hymenium Attachment
Poroid
Stipe
Lacking
Spore print
Spore print white
Ecology
Saprobic on the deadwood of spruces and pines, causing a brown rot, growing alone or gregariously, annual, spring through fall
Ecology
Inedible due to tough, corky texture
Fruit body
Fruit body size cap 5–15 cm wide, 1–3 cm thick
Chemical reactions
KOH negative on the cap surface and flesh
Odour
Odour mild and fragrant
Taste
Taste indistinct
Microscopy
Spores 4–5 x 2–2.5 µm, allantoid to cylindric, smooth, hyaline in KOH, inamyloid, basidia 15–18 x 4–5 µm, clavate, 4-sterigmate
Overview
Soft polypore with a pale velvety cap and fragile texture when fresh
2018). In Shen, Wang, Zhou, Xing, Cui & Dai, Persoonia 42: 119 (’2019′).
Field encounters
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