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Huge specimens, like dinner plates, up to a foot across. There were 39 specimens in
That spot, within a 12 x 12 foot grassy yard. The spores were very difficult to obtain A very sparse, thin print upon a black glass plate. A very sparse deposit upon porous paper pressed between two halves
Of mushroom by rubber bands. Spores do have double walls and are conspicuously spiked.
This species grows in two varieties; 1) As a hard shelf on dead cottonwood/willow trees, and
2) As a stemmed variety on the forest floor, mostly in bottomland forests.
a.k.a. Varnished shelf, Ling Chih, Mushroom of Immortality. |
