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White Cheese Polypore - Tyromyces chioneus Soft, whitish fruiting body with pores on the underside. <br />
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Habitat: Growing on birch twigs. Geotagged,Summer,Tyromyces,Tyromyces chioneus,United States,White Cheese Polypore,polypore Click/tap to enlarge

White Cheese Polypore - Tyromyces chioneus

Soft, whitish fruiting body with pores on the underside.

Habitat: Growing on birch twigs.

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"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.

Similar species: Polyporales
Species identified by Christine Young
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By Christine Young

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Uploaded Feb 11, 2020. Captured Aug 31, 2019 11:31 in 1 Richmond Rd, Winchester, NH 03470, USA.
  • Canon EOS 80D
  • f/4.0
  • 1/64s
  • ISO400
  • 100mm