Mushrooms List |
Family [Meripilaceae] |
31st Aug 2011, Elenwydd Wilderness, Mid Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
Very similar to both Chicken-of-the-Woods and Hen-of-the-Woods but much larger than either. |
31st Aug 2011, Elenwydd Wilderness, Mid Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
When young, similar to Chicken-of-the-Woods, but that does not go brown/black when bruised like this, nor go so brown on the upper surface as these specimens. |
31st Aug 2011, Elenwydd Wilderness, Mid Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
This photograph is more true to the actual colour. Each overlapping and tiered bracket is up to 30cm across, with the whole caboodle being up to 80cm wide. |
31st Aug 2011, Elenwydd Wilderness, Mid Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
31st Aug 2011, Elenwydd Wilderness, Mid Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
Pores whitish or cream coloured that discolour to brown when bruised. |
When young Giant Polypore is almost indistinguishable from Chicken-of-the-Woods (Laetiporus sulphureus) but Giant Polypore turns brown very quickly when injured unlike Chicken-of-the-Woods. Older specimens of Indeed, your Author mistook this for Chicken-of-the-Woods until a correspondent put him straight. Unfortunately, this has left the entry for Chicken-of-the-Woods without photographs (unless another reader can oblige). Grows on dead stumps or on deciduous trees close to the ground.
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Meripilus | giganteus | ⇐ Global Aspect ⇒ | Meripilaceae |
Meripilus (brackets) |
Family [Meripilaceae] |