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Calcipostia guttulata — Fomitopsidaceae


Small to medium annual polypore. Cap fan-shaped, flattish at maturity, white, smooth but with scattered tiny, circular depressions; bruising rusty-brown; pale brown overall in age. Pores cream-colored (and said to occasionally show a pale green tint). Stalk slender and much longer than the cap is wide, colored as the cap, smooth. Saprophytic as well as parasitic.
 
 
Habitat:  Solitary or in small clusters on rotting conifer wood; also fruiting at the base of infected live Sitka spruce. 

Scent: Not distinctive

Spores: Pale brown

Season: Autumn




Picture

White cap with circular depressions
Heart O' The Forest Trail, ONP

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