Sunday, October 16, 2022

Spreading crust fungi

In a rainless, toasted forest, when even the moss is crunchy, these fungi are still soft to the touch, and slightly damp.

On the underside of a dry log. A thin crust, porous, with the "feel" of raw pie crust.

Large patches on an adjacent log.

And I'm not sure if these are the same species: they are on the trail down to Elk Falls, in fairly open forest, all very dry now. The same structure, large patches, dampish to touch, but mainly white.
On an upright dead snag.

With my hand as a measuring stick. About 15 cm for this smaller patch, the only one I could reach.

I think the first may be Ceriporia spissa, or at least one of the Ceriporia spp.; these come in a variety of colours. (I could be wrong. Easily.)  INaturalist has records of this species as close as Nanaimo. Polypores of British Columbia has a list and photos of the related species. (Here, pg. 65 ff.)

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En un bosque pluvial, sin lluvia, seco, hasta tostado, cuando hasta el musgo está  crujiente, estos hongos se mantienen suaves y un poco húmedos.

Fotos:

  1. En la zona inferior de un tronco seco. Una masa delgada, porosa, con un tacto como de masa para pan.
  2. Otro en un tronco cercano.
  3. No estoy segura que estos sean de la misma especie. Crecen en un tronco todavía en pie, pero bien podrida, en el sendero camino a las Cataratas Elk, todo muy seco ahora. Pero el hongo sigue húmedo. Es de un color crema claro, haciendo encrustaciones grandes.
  4. Midiendo uno con la mano; aproximadamente 15 cm. Los otros, más grandes, estaban fuera de mi alcance.
Creo que los primeros pueden ser Ceriporia spissa, o si no, uno de los Ceriporia spp. Vienen en una variedad de colores. INaturalist reporta hongos de esta especie cerca de aquí, en Nanaimo. La publicación "Polypores of British Columbia" tiene una lista con fotos de las especies de Ceriporia que se encuentran aquí. (Véase p. 65 ff.)


1 comment:

  1. It is so interesting that your weather there has been dry, and here on the northern California coast it has been utterly gray and damp for months. You remind me that I should do more exploring and looking for fungi here.

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