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Tyromyces chioneus The fruiting bodies were soft and smooth, fan-shaped, and whitish. The undersurface had white pores. <br /> <br /> Habitat: Growing on fallen, yellow birch<br /> <figure class="photo"><a href="https://www.jungledragon.com/image/76191/tyromyces_chioneus.html" title="Tyromyces chioneus"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.jungledragon.com/images/3232/76191_thumb.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=05GMT0V3GWVNE7GGM1R2&Expires=1759968010&Signature=EiBCRORwYnnETfsU20fWaxSlveU%3D" width="200" height="154" alt="Tyromyces chioneus The fruiting bodies were soft and smooth, fan-shaped, and whitish. The undersurface had white pores. <br /> <br /> Habitat: Growing on fallen, yellow birch<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/76193/polyporales.html Fall,Geotagged,Tyromyces chioneus,United States,White cheese polypore,polyporales,polypore" /></a></figure> Fall,Geotagged,Tyromyces chioneus,United States,White cheese polypore Click/tap to enlarge

Tyromyces chioneus

The fruiting bodies were soft and smooth, fan-shaped, and whitish. The undersurface had white pores.

Habitat: Growing on fallen, yellow birch

Tyromyces chioneus The fruiting bodies were soft and smooth, fan-shaped, and whitish. The undersurface had white pores. <br /> <br /> Habitat: Growing on fallen, yellow birch<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/76193/polyporales.html Fall,Geotagged,Tyromyces chioneus,United States,White cheese polypore,polyporales,polypore

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    Flown Kimmerling
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    Tyromyces chioneus?
    https://mushroomobserver.org/355973?q=jEXR     Posted 6 years ago, modified 6 years ago
    1. View Christine Young's profile
      Christine Young
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      Hahaha! Thanks, Lisa! It's perfect that the link is to my own spotting. I knew it looked familiar ;P Posted 6 years ago
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        Christine Young
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        I was even thinking that it was like the blue cheese polypore, yet white. Duh! Posted 6 years ago
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        That is hilarious! I didn't even realize! XD Derp! Posted 6 years ago
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          Christine Young
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          Hehe, derpy doodle :-D Posted 6 years ago

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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
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Uploaded Mar 16, 2019. Captured Oct 28, 2018 11:20 in 91 Main St, Sharon, CT 06069, USA.
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  • Canon EOS 80D
  • f/3.2
  • 1/166s
  • ISO100
  • 100mm
Captured in the fall. More fall photos.