MushroomBot<p>Fomitopsis mounceae</p><p><a href="https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Fomitopsis_mounceae.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mushroomexpert.com/Fomitopsis_</span><span class="invisible">mounceae.html</span></a></p><p>Ecology: Saprobic on the deadwood of conifers and hardwoods; also sometimes parasitic on living trees; causing a brown cubical rot; growing alone or gregariously; perennial; originally described from Alberta, Canada; widespread in North America from roughly the 40th parallel northward. The illustrated and described collections are from California, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.</p><p>Cap: 7-24 cm across and 6-17 cm deep; more or less semicircular in outline; convex or, over the years, becoming hoof-shaped; with orange to red, varnished zones of color toward the margin (and overall when young); red to dark brownish red or gray-brown toward the point of attachment when mature; with a fairly thick white to pale yellowish marginal zone; varnished areas bubbling and melting with flame.</p><p>Pore Surface: Whitish to slightly yellowish; not bruising significantly&mdash;or, when older, bruising slowly yellowish to brownish; appearing "stuffed" when young; with 3-5 round pores per mm; annual tube layers usually fairly distinct, up to 1 cm deep.</p><p>Stem: Absent.</p><p>Flesh: Creamy; unchanging when sliced; faintly zoned; leathery to woody.</p><p>Odor: Strong and fragrant when fresh.</p><p>Chemical Reactions: KOH on cap, flesh, and pore surface red to brownish red.</p><p>Microscopic Features: Spores 6-7 x 3.5-4.5 m; subellipsoid; smooth; hyaline in KOH; inamyloid. Basidia 4-sterigmate. Cystidia sometimes present; 20-40 x 4-5 m; sublageniform to fusiform; smooth; thin-walled; hyaline in KOH. Hyphal system trimitic, with thin-walled generative hyphae, thick-walled skeletal hyphae, and branching, thick-walled binding hyphae.</p><p><a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/mushrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mushrooms</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/fungi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fungi</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/mycology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mycology</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/shrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shrooms</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/mushtodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mushtodon</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/sporespondence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sporespondence</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/floraspondence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>floraspondence</span></a></p>