Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Pink Shelf Fungus - Rosy Conks - Bracket Fungus

These are on the tall stump.

Also called rosy polypore.
Several more growing January 25, 2025
Widely distributed in North America's conifer forests, Rhodofomes cajanderi is a tough polypore with a gorgeous pink pore surface and, when fresh and young, pink shades on its cap surface. The caps are generally fairly thin, and often fused together, forming a structure in which individual caps are hard to define. 
Rosy gilled polypore. 
This one is just starting on a dead fir next to the trail.
The "rosy gilled polypore" refers to Gloeophyllum sepiarium, also known as the Rusty Gilled Polypore, a common, leathery shelf fungus with distinctive rusty-orange to brown, maze-like gills (not true pores) on its underside, growing on dead conifers and lumber, and is inedible but recognized by its bright orange-banded cap and wood-decaying nature. 

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