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Brown Purplepore Bracket

Trichaptum fuscoviolaceum

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 540, February 399, March 625, April 983, May 1,417, June 1,545, July 1,653, August 1,422, September 1,044, October 779, November 426, December 333.
United States11,363
Alaska11,164
Russia133
Germany73
Finland69
Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Ugra62
Spain55
Canada49
Georgia45
Brandenburg45

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • Human edibleListed as edible by a harvested source. This is a research trait, not foraging advice.FungiTastic metadata
  • Shelf fungus formDescends from a fungal lineage whose members are commonly shelf or bracket fungi.Inferred from its group
  • Grows on woodDescends from a fungal lineage whose members commonly grow on wood.Inferred from its group
  • Saprotrophic fungusDescends from a fungal lineage whose members commonly decompose dead organic matter.Inferred from its group

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

KingdomFungi Including Lichens · Fungi
PhylumBasidiomycete Fungi · Basidiomycota
ClassMushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies · Agaricomycetes
OrderHymenochaetales
FamilyHymenochaetaceae
GenusTrichaptum

Sources

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