Polyporus tuberaster

Polyporus tuberaster is a species of fungus in the genus Polyporus.[1]

Polyporus tuberaster
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Polyporales
Family: Polyporaceae
Genus: Polyporus
Species:
P. tuberaster
Binomial name
Polyporus tuberaster
(Jacquin ex Persoon) Fries 1821

The yellow-brown cap is 4โ€“15 cm wide, and ranges from convex to flat and even funnel-shaped.[2] The whitish stalks can grow upwards of 10 cm high and 2โ€“4 cm wide.[2] The spores are white.[2]

The species is edible but also tough.[2]

References

  1. "Polyporus tuberaster in Mycobank".
  2. Davis, R. Michael; Sommer, Robert; Menge, John A. (2012). Field Guide to Mushrooms of Western North America. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 337โ€“338. ISBN 978-0-520-95360-4. OCLC 797915861.


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