Dryads saddle
Cerioporus squamosus
Edible, but easily confused with poisonous lookalikes.
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At a glance
- Scientific name
- Cerioporus squamosus
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Polyporales
- Family
- Polyporaceae
- Under the cap
- Pores
- Cap
- Dipped, Bracket
- Stem
- Bare
- Lives by
- Breaking down dead matter, Parasite
- Season
- Spring, Summer
- Habitat
- Dead wood, Living trees
- Spore print
- White
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- Its name refers to the dryads, tree spirits of Greek myth, who might sit on it like a saddle.
- The brown scales on its cream cap look like pheasant feathers, so it is also called pheasant's back.
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- Tinder fungus
Fomes fomentarius
- Chicken of the woods
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q96934111 · All fungi · All entries