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Slo.: okata bjerkandera - Habitat: Light mixed wood with some ground vegetation, flysh bedrock, flat terrain, mostly in shade, average precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 440 m (1.450 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: fallen, to some degree rotten, trunk of a deciduous tree, overgrown with mosses. - Comment: Many fruit bodies. These are young specimens. Odor 'mushroomy'. Basidiocarps annual. Spores were not obtained. Thanks to Irene Andersson, MushroomObserver.com for identification. Identification is not completely certain. - Ref.: (1) Personal communication Irene Andersson, MushroomObserver.com (2) A.Bernicchia, Polyporaceae s.l., Fungi Europaei 10, Edizioni Candusso (2005), p 141 (3) D.Arora, Mushrooms Demystified, Ten Speed Press, Berkeley (1986), p 596 (4) http://www.naturspaziergang.de/Pilze.htm (5) http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/r157182.htm
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Slo.: brezova lenzovka - syn. Trametes betulina - Habitat: South inclined mountain slope, mostly broadleaf forest with individual Picea abies, calcareous ground, quite humid and warm place, partly in shade, partly protected from direct rain by tree canopies, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 495 m (1.600 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: Dead, thick, broken-off branch of Corylus avellana, hanging, not on ground. - Comments: Growing in a group of many basidiocarps, pileus diameter up to 13 cm (5 inch), sterile surface of caps velutinate, indistinctively zonate, whitish with pale ochre bands (oac893), pore surface whitish-beige (oac807), tube layer concolorous with pore surface, context white (oac900); smell distinctive mushroomy, pleasant; SP white. Spores smooth, cylindrical, some slightly allantoid. Dimensions: 5.7 (SD = 0.4) x 2.6 (SD = 0.2) micr., Q = 2.24 (SD = 0.19), n = 30. Motic B2-211A, magnification 1.000 x, oil, in water. Congo red. - Ref.: (1) A.Bernicchia, Polyporaceae s.l., Fungi Europaei, Vol. 10., Edizioni Candusso (2005), p 314. (2) G.J.Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Bade-Wrttembergs, Band 1, Ulmer (2000), p 542. (3) M.Bon, Parey's Buch der Pilze, Kosmos (2005), p 318. (4) R.Phillips, Mushrooms, Macmillan (2006), p 312.
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Slo.: pepelasti zvitoluknjiar - (syn.: Daedalea unicolor) - Habitat: Pasture land, southeast oriented slopes, full sun, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 550 m (1.800 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: dead trunk of a small Ostrya carpinifolia laying on ground. - Comment: See an interesting story of the Cerrena unicolor, the Horntail Wasp Tremex Columba and the Ichneumonid wasp Megarhyssa at http://www.mushroomthejournal.com/mma/SC200304.html#cerrena - Ref.: A.Bernicchia, Polyporaceae s.l. in Italia, Instituto di Patologia Vegetale, Uni. degli Studi di Bologna (1990), pp458. http://www.messiah.edu/Oakes/fungi_on_wood/poroid%20fungi/species%20pages/Cerrena%20unicolor.htm
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Slo.: luskasti luknjiar - Habitat: Pebble island of river Soa, full sun, exposed to direct precipitations, average precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 350 m (1.150 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: Alive trunk of Alnus incana sill in bark, downed and transported by high water and deposited on a pebble island of river Soa. - Comments: Some fresh shoots with buds and young leaves from otherwise rootless trunk show that the trunk is still alive. Spore dimensions: 12.8 (SD=1.0) x 4.6 (SD= 0.53) micr., Q= 2.8 (SD= 0.19), n=33. Motic B2-211A, magnification 1.000 x, oil, in water. - Ref.: A.Bernicchia, Polyporaceae s.l., Fungi Europaei 10, Edizioni Candusso (2005), p 486. M.Bon, Pareys Buch der Pilze, Kosmos (2005), p 314. R.M.Daehncke, 1200 Pilze in Farbfotos, AT Verlag (2009), p 1056.
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Slo.: kosmata ploskocevka - Habitat: A clearing in mixed wood, predominantly Fagus sylvatica and Picea abies, south oriented, moderately steep mountain slope, calcareous ground, partly sunny, exposed to direct rain, average precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 6-8 deg C, elevation 950 m (3.100 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: cut off decaying branches of Fagus sylvatica. - Comment: Although this species has usually more or less green upper side of pileus due to algae, such intense green color is uncommon. - Ref.: Personal communication Mr. Gregor Podgornik, NAC, Tolmin, Slovenia. A.Bernicchia, Polyporaceae s.l., Fungi Europaei 10, Edizioni Candusso (2005), p 529. M.Bon, Pareys Buch der Pilze, Kosmos (2005), p 318. R.Lueder, Grundkurs Pilzbestimmung, Quelle & Mayer (2008), p 340.
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Slo.: tigrasta strnjenka - Habitat: Wet marsh, thicket of Salix sp. bushes, flat frequently flooded terrain, muddy ground, cretaceous clastic rock (flysh) bedrock, humid and shady place, partly protected from direct rain by tree canopies, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 450 m (1.500 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: Water soaked, rotten trunk of Salix viminalis or Salix fragilis almost completely buried in the muddy ground. - Comments: Growing in a small group of several fruitbodies, pileus diameter up to about 6 cm (2.5 inch), taste and smell initially mild, smell becoming strong and unpleasant (urine) during drying, SP white. Spores smooth, dimensions: 7.2 (SD = 0.5) x 3.3 (SD = 0.3) micr., Q = 2.2 (SD = 0.17), n = 30. Motic B2-211A, magnification 1.000 x, oil, in water. - Ref.: (1) Id'ed by Mr. Bojan Rot (2) M.Bon, Parey's Buch der Pilze, Kosmos (2005), p 121. (3) http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/gallery/DisplayBlock~bid~6282~gid~~source~gallerydefault.asp (4) http://www.mycobank.org/MycoTaxo.aspx?Link=T&Rec=164542
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Also called tinder fungus, touchwood, punk and amaden. Another scientific name is Ungulina fomentaria.
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Slo.: raznolini luknjiar - syn.: Polyporus leptocephalus (Jacq.) Fr., Polyporus elegans - Habitat: mountain lake shore, in willow thickets, among tall herbs, flat terrain, calcareous alluvial, skeletal ground; in shade, humid place, partly protected from direct rain by tree canopies, average precipitations ~ 2.800 mm/year, average temperature 5-7 deg C, elevation 960 m (3.150 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: fallen, dead trunk of Salix eleagnos in its initial disintegration stage. Comments: Assuming this find belongs to Polyporus Fr. (sens.lat.) large measured spores point to the group Polyporus s.str. with only two members in Europe, namely Polyoprus tuberaster and Polyporus squamosus (Ref.1). Since Polyporus tuberster grows on ground from a sclerotium the only candidate from this group remains Polyporus squamoss. However, density of pores (measured 5-6 pores/mm; typical for Polyporus squamosus 1-2/mm) apparently exclude this option. Also, pilei surface do not show even a trace of radially arranged darker squamules so typical for Polyporus squamosus. So, this option seems out. On the other hand macroscopic traits fit well to Polyporud varius. Pilei size, density of pores, pilei color (for young pilei), decurrent pores, black, short, relatively thin stipe and substratum all speak in favor of this determination. However, measured spores are way too big. I have no convincing explanation for this discrepancy. May be that the sporocarps found were too young to sporulate and that the spores measured belong to some other fungi in the vicinity of the find? SP was (if at all) very faint, practically invisible for the naked eye. Growing solitary and in a single group of four pilei fuzzed at the base; pilei diameter up to 6.5 cm; stipe short, thin compared to pilei diameter, almost entirely black; context firm, leathery, almost difficult to cut; when dry very hard; context slowly darkening to light brown when cut; pore surface also darkening to light brown when handled; smell distinct, mushroomy, pleasant; taste distinct, mushroomy, slightly unpleasant after a while; SP almost none. Spores smooth. Dimensions: 13 [13.9 ; 14.4] 15.2 x 4.9 [5.4 ; 5.7] 6.1 microns; Q = 2.3 [2.5 ; 2.6] 2.8; N = 20; C = 95%; Me = 14.1 x 5.5 microns. Olympus CH20, NEA 100x/1.25, magnification 1.000 x, oil, in water, in vivo. AmScope MA500 digital camera. Herbarium: Mycotheca and lichen herbarium (LJU-Li) of Slovenian Forestry Institute, Vena pot 2, Ljubljana, Index Herbariorum LJF Ref.: (1) L. Ryvarden, R.L. Gilbertson, European Polypores, part 2., Synopsis Fungorum 7., Fungiflora A/S (1994), p 586. (2) R.Phillips, Mushrooms, Macmillan (2006), p 298. (3) S.Buczacki, Collins Fungi Guide, Collins (2012), p 510. (4) G.J.Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Baden-Wrttembergs, Band 1., Ulmer (2000), p 510. (5) A.Bernicchia, S.P.Gorjon, Cortitiaceaes.i., Fungi Europaei Vol.12., EdizioniCandusso (2010), p 473. (6) R.M. Daehncke, 1200 Pilze in Farbfotos, AT Verlag (2009), p 1060. (7) D.Arora, Mushrooms Demystified, Ten Speed Press, Berkeley (1986), p 562. (8) L. Ryvarden, Polyporaceae of North Europe, Vol. I & II, Islo (1978). (9) S. Domanski, H. Orlos, A. Skirgiello, Grzby, Polyporaceac II, Mucronoporaceae II, Springfield, Warshaw (1967).
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Another scientific names are Daedaleopsis dickinsii and Trametes dickinsii.
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Slo.: rdeea zvitocevka - syn.: Trametes rubescens (A.& S.) - Habitat: mixed woods, humid, shady and relatively cold place, on fallen log of a deciduous tree, precipitations >3.000 mm/year
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Slo.: modri krasotec - syn.: Pulcherricium caeruleum (Lam.:Fr.) Parm., Thelephora caerulea Fr. - Habitat: Mixed wood, Fagus sylvatica and Picea abies dominant, modestly inclined mountain slope; southeast aspect, locally almost flat terrain; shallow, calcareous ground; mostly in shade; partly protected from direct rain by tree canopies, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, elevation 565 m (1.850feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: wooden lath, part of a wooden door in wire fence; wood of Robinia pseudoacacia, almost intact or in the earliest stage of disintegration. Comments: Terana caerulea is one of the most beautiful and intensively colored crust fungi I know. Its iridescent cobalt blue color is almost an unmistakable trait for determination. This find was not really attractive; however two things are very interesting. The first is unusual substratum. Robinia pseudoacacia is not mentioned as a possible substratum in my books and I was also unable to find it listed on internet sources. The second is that the wood (lath) was machine processed and almost intact, not at all rotten. I usually find this species on quite rotten branches of Corylus avellana and Fagus sylvatica in regularly moist environment. The fungus is known from all continents and all European countries, but with prevalent southern distribution. It is very rare in boreal areas. However, it is more and more frequently found in northern regions presumably due to warming of global climate (Ref.: 4). Ref.: (1) A. Bernicchia, S.P. Gorjon, Cortitiaceaes, Fungi Europaei ,Vol.12., Edizioni Candusso (2010), pp 650. (2) S. Buczacki, Collins Fungi Guide, Collins (2012), p 530. (3) M. Bon, Parey's Buch der Pilze, Kosmos (2005), p 322. (4) G.J. Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Baden-Wrttembergs, Band 1, Ulmer (2000), p 342.
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UPDATED INFORMATION: Antrodia malicola, syn. Coriolellus malicola (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Murrill (1920), Daedalea malicola (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Aoshima (1967), Trametes jamaicensis Murrill (1910), Trametes malicola Berk. & M.A. Curtis (1856) Slo.: rjavkasta trhlica Date: Jan. 30. 2014 A piece of herbarium specimen has been sent to Mr. Gnter Sturm, Germany for evaluation. He has a very long 'mileage' with Polyporaceae. His habit and microscopic examination yields Antrodia malicola. This is a rather rare polypore (found in three MTB sub-squares in Slovenia) with clamped septs of the hypha and dimitic hypha system. He also found and examined a few spores. All characteristics meet the expectations for this species. He also mentions that, although Antrodia doesnt belong to the Hymenochaetaceae, A. malicola is an exception and reacts with KOH by blackening as it is demonstrated also on one of the pictures attached to the observation Antrodia malicola - I. In the Rhine-Main-Area of Germany, where he lives, they have about 20 finds of A. malicola up to now and he knows the taxon well. The main substrate is Fagus, but it was found also on Carpinus. The mushroom has a fine-aromatic smell, which I somehow overlooked. Gnter thank you for your interest and time. _______________________________ Former text: Slo.: afranasti (?) zlatoluknjiar - Coriolopsis trogii (Berk.) Dom., syn: Trametes trogii Berk or Hapalopilus croceus ? (Pers.) Donk, syn.: Aurantiporus croceus, Inonotus croceus, Phaeolus croceus, Tyromyces croceus - Habitat: Former pasture, on top of a pile of firewood; flat terrain, calcareous ground, full sun, exposed to direct rain, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 400 m (1.300 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: a cut down, dead, rotten but partly still in bark trunk of Ostrya carpinifolia (about 15 cm diameter) used as a weight and laying on a pile of firewood. - Comments: Two weeks after the first observation I went back to the place, took some additional pictures and samples and did some microscopy. I found several new fruit bodies (pictures added) as well as the old ones, which havent changed much in size and appearance. The new ones were on a different larger ~ 20 cm diameter log a few meters away of the first find on the same substratum. This time I found also two fully resupinated basidiocarps. - To my big surprise, I was unable to find a single spore this time! I scoped hypha of trama and tube layer and basidia. All following comparisons relate to information given in Ref.:(4). Trama hypha seems to be monomitic, a characteristics of H. croceus. I was unable to find any trace of trimitic hypha, which is characteristic to Coriolopsis trogii. Hypha is quite uniform, dense, thin-walled, rarely branched, which also corresponds to H. croceus. It has somewhat larger diameter (measured average value d=3.8, SD=0.5, n=30 and data of H.croceus = 3-6) than C. trogii (generative hypha d=2-3,5(4)). C. trogii has richly branched, thick-walled skeletal and binding hypha, which I was unable to find. Basidia dimensions (measured average l=25.8, SD=3.5 and d=6.4 SD=1.0, n=15) and lack of cystidia fit well to both species. Their shape is generally clavate (which fits to both species), but many are (double) flash shaped, which is not mentioned in the literature available to me. KOH 5% test on trama was again violent, dark red-black. Ref.:(4) states carmine red for H. croceus and unchangeable or only slightly darkening for C. trogii. H.croceus causes white root, which can be seen from one of the added pictures. I havent found this information for C. trogii. - On the other hand, both species should have hypha with clamps and also basidia should have basal clams. I haven't found clamps (poor microscopy?). - Re: substratum. Ref.:(4) and Ref.:(3) state Quercus sp./Castanea sp. for H. croceus and Populus sp./Salix sp. for C. trogii. In my observation it was almost certainly Ostrya carpinifolia, which seems to be closer to Quercus sp. from the stand point of wood properties (very heavy and hard, historically used to fashion plane soles). - I dont know how to interpret this data. What puzzle me are spores wrong dimensions in the first visit and apparent absence of hypha clamps. Could this observation be something third? - Ref.: (1) Personal communication, provisionally id'ed as Hapalopilus by Mr. Anton Poler. (2) Personal communication, provisionally ided as Trametes trogii by Mr. Gregor Podgornik, NAC Tolmin. (3) G.J.Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Bade-Wrttembergs, Band 1, Ulmer (2000), p 532 and 505. (4) A.Bernicchia, Polyporaceae s.l., Fungi Europaei, Vol. 10., Edizioni Candusso (2005), p 256 and 190.
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Slo.: cinobrasti drobnoluknjicar - Habitat: Light forest and bushes, mainly Corylus avelana and Ostrya carpinifolia, NW oriented calcareous mountain slope, quite sunny, exposed to direct rain, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, elevation 780 m (2.800 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: fallen rotten branch of Corylus avelana
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Habitat: Mixed woodland, nearly flat ground, cretaceous clastic rock (flysh), partly rain protected by trees canopies, mostly in shade, average precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, altitude 435 m (1.450 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: fallen rotten deciduous tree, probably Acer sp., partly debarked, covered with mosses. - Place: West of Bovec, near a trail from station A of Mt. Kanin cable car to village Pluna, East Julian Alps, Posoje, Slovenia - Comments: Spore print white. Spore dimensions: 4.6 (SD=0,3) x 3.3 (SD=0,3) micr., Q= 1.42 (SD=0,10), n= 33. Motic B2-211A, magnification 1.000 x, oil, in water. - Motic B2-211A, magnification 1.000 x, oil, in water. - Many thanks to Dip.ing. of Forestry Gregor Podgornik, Natural History Center (NAC), Tolmin, Slovenia for determination. - Ref.: (1) Personal communication with Gregor Podgornik, NAC, Tolmin, Slovenia. (2) http://www.usask.ca/biology/fungi/genus_species_pages/tyromyces_fissilis.shtml. (3) http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/gallery/DisplayBlock~bid~6906~gid~~source~gallerydefault.asp . (4) http://www.mykonet.ch/images/Porlinge/aurantisporus_fissilis_apfelbaum_saftporling.jpg. (5) A.Bernicchia, Polyporaceae s.l., Fungi Europaei 10, Edizioni Candusso (2005), p 552
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Slo.: rombasti luknjicar - Habitat: Wood-side of a pasture land, southeast oriented slopes, partly sunny, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 570 m (1.900 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: rotten thick branch of a deciduous tree lying on ground among grasses. - Comment: Determination not certain. Based on field characters only. - Ref.: A.Bernicchia, Polyporaceae s.l. in Italia, Instituto di Patologia Vegetale, Uni. degli Studi di Bologna (1990), pp462.
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Slo.: črneča velezračenka - Habitat: Light, mixed, predominantly hardwood woodland, dominant Fagus sylvatica, Picea abies, Quercus sp., Fraxinus excelsior, Corylus avellana; nearly flat terrain, cretaceous clastic rock (flysh), partly rain protected by trees canopies, mostly in shade, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 480 m (1.575feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: a large stump and roots of a cut down tree in its final stage of disintegration; tree species undistinguishable; most probably Fagus sylvatica, but possibly also Quercus sp. (several trees growing in the vicinity). - Comments: Growing solitary (probably a single mycelium), however in three groups of pilei on the same tree; they were about 1 m (3 feet) apart, the largest group about 40 cm (16 inch) in diameter; taste strong, mushroomy, unpleasant; smell slightly unpleasant, indistinctive; flesh strongly fibrous; SP whitish; pore surface bruising when handled, first ochre, then brown, then blackish, but not fast, the process takes several ten minutes. - Spores smooth. Dimensions: 5.7 (SD= 0.3) x 4.8 (SD= 0.2) μ, Q= 1.2 (SD= 0.06), n= 30. Olympus CH20, NEA 100x/1.25, magnification 1.000 x, oil, in water.AmScope MA500 digital camera. - Herbarium: Mycotheca and lichen herbarium (LJU-Li) of Slovenian Forestry Institute, Večna pot 2, Ljubljana, Index Herbariorum LJF - Ref.: (1) S.Buczacki, Collins Fungi Guide, Collins (2012), p 505. (2) R.Phillips, Mushrooms, Macmillan (2006), p 301. (3) G.J.Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Baden-Wrttembergs, Band 1, Ulmer (2000), p 547. (4) M.Bon, Parey'sBuch der Pilze, Kosmos (2005), p 314. (5) R.Lueder, GrundkursPilzbestimmung, Quelle& Meyer (2008), p 338. (6) R.M. Daehncke, 1200 Pilze in Farbfotos, AT Verlag (2009), p 1065.
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Slo.: satjasti lukniar - Syn.: Polyporus mori, Hexagonia mori - Habitat: Hardwood forest with a few scattered Picea abies, S oriented hill slope, cretaceous clastic rock (flysh) bedrock, in shade, humid and relatively warm place, partly protected from direct rain by tree canopies, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 490 m (1.600 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: still hanging dead stalk of Clematis vitalba, about 12 - 14 mm (0.5 inch) in diameter and 30 cm (one foot) above ground. - Comments: Unusual substratum - dead Clematis vitalba. None of sources checked mentions Clematis as a possible substratum; fairly aged fruitbody; growing solitary, pileus diameter 28 mm (1.2 inch) yellow-beige (oac855), pores concolorous with the cap, stipe 4 mm in diameter about 5 mm (0.2 inch) long, slightly lighter than cap, no black color on it. SP faint whitish. - Spore dimensions: 10.8 (SD = 0.7) x (SD = 3.7) micr., Q = 2.96 (SD = 0.22), n = 30. Motic B2-211A, magnification 1.000 x, oil, in water. Congo red. -Ref.: (1) A.Bernicchia, Polyporaceae s.l., Edizioni Candusso (2005), p 455. (2) G.J.Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Bade-Wrttembergs, Band 1, Ulmer (2000), p 602.