Wednesday, 15 February 2012

False Turkey Tail

Facts
Common Name: 
False Turkey Tail
Scientific Name: 
Stereum ostrea
Cap or Bracket Thickness (mm): 
1-10cms across
Information
Description: 
fruit body irregular, semicircular or bracket-like often overlapping.zonate and multircoloured in shades of brown and rust, densely hairy. Fertile lower surface pale buff, smooth. Flesh. thin tough and leathery. Spores cylindrical smooth. spore print white.
Distribution: 
Not Common.
Habitat: 
found on decayed wood.
Additional Notes: 
S. ostrea is certainly NOT native British !! Nick LegonĀ