Tuesday, June 1, 2010

dinner roll?





Is there a mycologist out there? I need a little help on this one. It’s a shelf-like mushroom growing from the side of a sawed-off stump. The tree had probably fallen across the trail and had to be cut up to clear the path.

Perhaps it's a polypore? I think I’d call it “crescent dinner-roll fresh-from-the-oven polypore,” but that’s open for debate.

We found it in the Great Smokies growing near LeConte Creek.

- Photo taken in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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