False Turkey Tail

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False Turkey Tail is an extremely common, widely distributed, wood decaying, bracket fungi. It usually develops individual, overlapping brackets that do not fuse into larger shelves or rosettes. It is saprobic, occurring on logs and stumps of dead hardwood trees, especially oaks.

There is no stalk.

The fruiting body is a thin, semicircular or fan-shaped, 2″ to 3″ wide bracket (cap). It is leathery and pliant when moist, rigid when dry. It may be flat, but is usually curved up at the sides in the shape of a sliced funnel. The upper surface is dry and concentrically zoned dark reddish, orange, yellowish, brown, and buff. It is densely velvety hairy at first, but the hairs wear away as the cap ages. Older caps are usually buff or gray, often greenish or blackish due to being partially covered with algae.

The under surface is smooth or slightly bumpy, with no layer of pores or tubes. It is buff to cinnamon-buff when young, becoming grayish or whitish on older specimens.

The flesh is tough and inedible.

The spore print is white but difficult to obtain.

Dead hardwoods, especially oaks.

Year-round

Sources

4, 7, 24, 26, 29, 30, 77.

Extremely common and widespread.

False Turkey Tail and Chicken of the Woods, 9/5/2016

8/21/2016

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Location: Cass County

Location: Lebanon Hills Regional Park