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Robust Bracket

Fomitiporia robusta

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 555, February 410, March 643, April 1,011, May 1,457, June 1,589, July 1,701, August 1,463, September 1,074, October 801, November 438, December 342.
United States11,538
Alaska11,484
Russia382
Ukraine124
Austria111
Lithuania105
Sweden82
Steiermark80
Moscow80
Vilnius County67

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
GenusFomitiporia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Robust Bracket with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.