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Tinder Polypore

Fomes excavatus

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Ontario.January 106, February 109, March 172, April 336, May 646, June 303, July 228, August 206, September 217, October 186, November 111, December 99.
United States6,667
Canada6,225
Ontario2,905
New York1,634
Michigan1,215
Minnesota929
Vermont794
Massachusetts756
Quebec674
New Hampshire663

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

Traits

Group and habits

  • 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

Classification

KingdomFungi Including Lichens · Fungi
PhylumBasidiomycete Fungi · Basidiomycota
ClassMushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies · Agaricomycetes
OrderShelf Fungi · Polyporales
FamilyBracket Fungi · Polyporaceae
GenusFomes

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