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EDIBLE AND POISONOUS MUSHROOMS OF CANADA<br />
6. Pileus bright sulphur-yellow to<br />
pinkish or orange Polyporus sulphureus<br />
6. Pileus dark brown, velvety, watery-fleshy Polyporus resinosus<br />
GANODERMA TSUGAE Murr. Not edible<br />
FigLiic 396, page 289<br />
PILEUS 2-12 in. in diameter, more or less fan-shaped to bean-shaped,<br />
stipitate or sessile by a narrowed base, variable in color, reddish, reddish<br />
brown, mahogany colored, brownish orange to nearly black, with a white to<br />
yellow or orange margin, glabrous, with a varnished appearance, flesh white<br />
or nearly so, except brownish near the tubes, thick, tough, corky, tubes whitish<br />
becoming brown when bruised, stipe when present usually lateral or excentric,<br />
colored like the pileus, 1 y^-6 in. long, Yi-X Vi<br />
in. thick, spores brown, ovoid,<br />
sHghtly rough, 9-1 1 X 6-8 //•<br />
On and about stumps and logs of coniferous trees, especially hemlock.<br />
July-Nov., sometimes persisting through the winter.<br />
This is a beautiful fungus. The bright colors and varnished appearance<br />
will certainly attract attention, but it is not edible. There has been some differ-<br />
ence of opinion as to whether or not G. lucidum (Leyss ex Fr.) Karst. is the<br />
same fungus but it seems best to regard this form, which occurs on hardwoods,<br />
as a distinct species.<br />
POLYPORUS BETULINUS Bull, ex Fr. Edible when young<br />
Figure 352, page 253<br />
pileus 1 1/4-10 in. long, 1 14-6 in. broad, more or less elongated to circular,<br />
convex, or attached by a lateral, stem-like umbo, usually sessile, whitish to<br />
brownish, glabrous or somewhat scurfy, with a thick, sterile, inroUed margin<br />
projecting down below the tube surface, flesh white, rather thick, rather<br />
cheesy to corky in age. tubes white, small, usually smooth but sometimes<br />
becoming somewhat toothed, spores cylindric to allantoid, smooth, 3.5-5 X<br />
1-2 M.<br />
On living or dead birch trees. May-Nov.<br />
The characteristic, thick, projecting margin and the occurrence on birch<br />
only, are the chief distinguishing marks of this species. It is an easy one to<br />
recognize. It has been reported to be edible when young but is usually too<br />
tough to be of any value.<br />
POLYPORUS FRONDOSUS (Dicks.) Fr. Edible<br />
Figure 397, page 289<br />
Hen of the Woods<br />
fructification 6-12 in. or more in diameter, consisting of a fleshy mass of<br />
crowded, much-branched stipes which expand above into imbricated pilei )^-<br />
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