Monday, May 27, 2013

Wood Fungi

There are many kind of wood fungi. Some can be eaten and others can poisonous. Some of the example of wood fungi as on the pictures below:

Tremetes versicolor (Turkey tail porebracket)
Trametes versicolor is a wood rotting polypore that grows on the side of felled oak logs and other dead or drying hardwoods.



Favolaschia calocera (Orange Poreconch)
Orange pore fungus is an introduced tropical species in the Mycenaceae family in Madagascar, New Zealanad, Italy and Australia.


Orange poreconch gills ( Lamellae)

Auricularia cornea (wood ear fungi)
Normally found on dead wood, or on dead parts of living trees. This fungi is edible and used in Chinese dishes. It was exported from New Zealand, mainly from the Taranaki area in the later part of 1800’s by Chinese man called Chew Chong.

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