White Cheese Polypore - Tyromyeces chioneus

It was squishy and wet.

Habitat: Growing on birch

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Flown Kimmerling

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My first guess would be Tyromyces chioneus (looks like it is on birch? if so, this is one of the most common host species for T. chioneus). Posted 4 years ago, modified 4 years ago
1. Christine Young
  
  Lion
  
  Thanks, that was my first thought too, but I wasn't sure because I didn't see any pores. It was literally just a blob of squish.
  https://mushroomobserver.org/453830?q=1hBUX Posted 4 years ago, modified 4 years ago

The White Cheese Polypore

"Tyromyces chioneus", commonly known as the white cheese polypore, is a species of polypore fungus. A widely distributed fungus, it has a circumpolar distribution, in temperate boreal pine forests, of Asia, Europe, and North America, causes white rot in dead hardwood trees, especially birch.

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Similar species: Polyporales

Species identified by Christine Young