Giant polypore
Meripilus giganteus
Edible, but easily confused with poisonous lookalikes.
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At a glance
- Scientific name
- Meripilus giganteus
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Polyporales
- Family
- Meripilaceae
- Under the cap
- Pores
- Cap
- Bracket
- Stem
- No stem
- Lives by
- Breaking down dead matter, Parasite
- Season
- Summer, Autumn
- Habitat
- Dead wood, Living trees
- Spore print
- White
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- Its overlapping caps form a rosette at the base of a tree that can be more than half a metre across.
- It rots the roots of trees such as beech, which can make them fall in storms.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q2030825 · All fungi · All entries