Thursday, October 28, 2010

Wild Mushrooms of Ainsworth: Spongy White Polypore

SpongyWhitePolypore
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Found on a fallen tree in Deep River County Park.

*sigh* Here's how I usually decide on a mushroom identification, after paging through the color plates and comparing them to the living specimen before me: "Well, it doesn't really look like [Mushroom X], but it looks even less like anything else, so I'm going to call it [Mushroom X]."

Judging by the variety of images I bring up when I Google [Mushroom X], most of the other dilettante mushroomizers are probably doing the same.

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