5/03/23, 12:46 PM
Vienna - Am Mühlwasser, Danube-Auen National Park, Austria
White poplar tree (Populus alba)
N 48° 11' 29.0" (48.19138), E 16° 28' 49.9" (16.480525)
🔆 Partial overcast with sun
Original Instagram postInonotus obliquus
chaga
- Scientific identification
- Inonotus obliquus (Fr.) Pilát
- Family
- Hymenochaetaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Inonotus
Names across languages
- English: chaga
- German: Schiefer Schillerporling
- Estonian: Must pässik
- Russian: Инонотус ско́шенный
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2023-05-03.
Cap
no distinct cap
Hymenium
hymenium is smooth
Hymenium attachment
hymenium attachment is not applicable
Stipe
lacks a stripe
Description
sterile form
Ecology
ecology is parasitic
Edibility
edibility: choice, medicinal
Overview
The sterile conk is irregularly formed and resembles burnt charcoal. It is not the fruiting body of the fungus, but a sclerotium or mass of mycelium, mostly black because of a great amount of melanin.
Published in: Pilát. In: Atlas Champ. l'Europe, III, Polyporaceae (Praha) 1: 572. (1942).
Field encounters
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