Picipes tubaeformis (Trumpet Polypore)
Family
Polyporaceae
Location
Europe, North America
Dimensions
Cap 2-12 cm diameter, stem 2-4 cm tall * 0.2-0.7 cm thick
Edibility
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Description
Picipes tubaeformis, sometimes called the Trumpet Polypore, is a tough, funnel-shaped polypore found on decaying wood of both deciduous and coniferous trees. It appears from spring through autumn, most often on beech, willow, poplar, ash, or alder, and more rarely on spruce.

Cap funnel-shaped and smooth, in youth light brown and later reddish-brown to dark brown. The margin is lighter, whitish and wavy. Stem cylindrical and whitish, becoming dark reddish-brown with age, and darker at the base where it turns reddish-brown to dark brown. Pores very small, descending along the stem, whitish. Spore print whitish to cream.

Microscopic Features: The spores are elliptical, smooth, transparent, 7–8.5 × 2.8–3.6 µm; basidia 4-spored, club-shaped; cystidia spindle-shaped and often multi-septate.

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