JungleDragon is a nature and wildlife community for photographers, travellers and anyone who loves nature. We're genuine, free, ad-free and beautiful.

Join

Hairy Crustcap What a wonderful name! Better description than wiki, taken from the Mushroom Expert.com<br />
Fruiting Body: Individually .5-3 cm across, but often fused together; fan-shaped, semicircular, or irregular; densely velvety, hairy, or with appressed hairs; with concentric zones of texture and color; colors variable, but generally ranging from yellow to tan, brown, reddish brown, or buff (sometimes developing greenish shades in old age as a result of algae); laterally attached, without a stem.<br />
Undersurface: Smooth; yellowish to yellow-brown or grayish brown; sometimes bruising darker yellow.<br />
 Fall,Geotagged,Hairy Stereum,South Africa,Stereum hirsutum,bracket fungi,crust fungi,fungi,mushrooms Click/tap to enlarge Species introCountry intro

Hairy Crustcap

What a wonderful name! Better description than wiki, taken from the Mushroom Expert.com
Fruiting Body: Individually .5-3 cm across, but often fused together; fan-shaped, semicircular, or irregular; densely velvety, hairy, or with appressed hairs; with concentric zones of texture and color; colors variable, but generally ranging from yellow to tan, brown, reddish brown, or buff (sometimes developing greenish shades in old age as a result of algae); laterally attached, without a stem.
Undersurface: Smooth; yellowish to yellow-brown or grayish brown; sometimes bruising darker yellow.

    comments (5)

  1. Very ni shot, Claire. Added to my list
    Posted 11 years ago
    1. Love your list! Posted 11 years ago
  2. these are very SIMILAR to Turkey tail. I have always read that Turkey tail has teeth on the underside. and yet someone (another site) stated they are smooth. Does anyone know for sure because I would like to take them ( Turkey Tail) for medicinal reasons.
    thanks for any replies. PeAcE only~
    Posted 10 years ago
    1. Tere's some info and photos here, also links to other sites.
      http://mushroom-collecting.com/mushroomturkey.html
      Posted 10 years ago
  3. In the Turkey tail, the underside has small but visible pores. The False Turkeytail however is completely smooth on the underside. Posted 10 years ago

Sign in or Join in order to comment.

"Stereum hirsutum" is a plant pathogen. "S. hirsutum" is in turn parasitised by certain other species such as the fungus "Tremella aurantia". Substrates for "S. hirsutum" include dead limbs and trunks of both hardwoods and conifers.

Similar species: Russulales
Species identified by Claire Hamilton
View Claire Hamilton's profile

By Claire Hamilton

All rights reserved
Uploaded May 20, 2014. Captured May 18, 2014 15:12 in Unnamed Road, South Africa.
  • Canon EOS 70D
  • f/14.0
  • 1/256s
  • ISO200
  • 100mm