Artist's Conk

really crazy looking artist's conk

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Mark Ridgway

Lion

Wow!! How many seasons did that take. Do you remember what type of tree? Amazing find. Posted 9 years ago
1. morpheme
  
  Lion
  
  lol - it looks like it's definitely a few years old - if you count the more prominent rings it looks like it might be a dozen or so. I didn't actually take note, since I was pretty sure of the ID, but in this forest it's most likely that the host tree was a Douglas fir. The area is lowland old growth, in a somewhat drier part the Olympic National park and the predominant trees in this spot were Dougs and cedars. Posted 9 years ago, modified 9 years ago

The Artist's Fungus

''Ganoderma applanatum'' is a bracket fungus with a cosmopolitan distribution. The spore bodies are up to 30–40 centimetres across, hard, woody-textured, and inedible; they are white at first but soon turn dark red-brown.

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Similar species: Polyporales

Species identified by morpheme