bleeding oak crust
Stereum gausapatum
Occurrence on wood substrate: Saprobic; resupinate
to effuse-reflexed or forming sessile, often overlapping caps
on stumps, logs, and branches of hardwoods (almost
exclusively oak); annual, spring through fall.
Dimensions: Individual resupinate fruit bodies 1-6 cm in
diameter; laterally fused caps forming coalesced structures
9-10 cm or more broad, 2-3 cm deep.
Sterile upper surface: The upper surface is pubescent
and zonate with brownish, orange, beige, yellowish, or black
bands and often a whitish margin. The margin typically
becomes wavy or curly.
Fertile lower surface: The wrinkled to smooth lower
surface is colored various shades of brown, orange, pinkish-
buff to clay and turns dark reddish where injured.
to effuse-reflexed or forming sessile, often overlapping caps
on stumps, logs, and branches of hardwoods (almost
exclusively oak); annual, spring through fall.
Dimensions: Individual resupinate fruit bodies 1-6 cm in
diameter; laterally fused caps forming coalesced structures
9-10 cm or more broad, 2-3 cm deep.
Sterile upper surface: The upper surface is pubescent
and zonate with brownish, orange, beige, yellowish, or black
bands and often a whitish margin. The margin typically
becomes wavy or curly.
Fertile lower surface: The wrinkled to smooth lower
surface is colored various shades of brown, orange, pinkish-
buff to clay and turns dark reddish where injured.