Mushroom identification 3

Mushroom Sample

Name: Trametes Versicolor
Common name:  Turkey Tail
Family:  Polyporacae

Collection Date: 10/22/16

Habitat:Grows in groups, rows, tiers and shelving masses or clusters. Grows on logs, stumps and branches. Very common and widely distributed. Abundant in oak woodland year round. Fruits appear in winter and spring.

Location: James H. Barrow Field Station

Description: Shelflike or bracketlike and is thin or leathery when fresh. Rigid when dry. Fan shaped. Surface is velvety or silky. Coloration on cap is of contrasting colors. Pores white to dingy yellowish, shallow tubes. Stalk is absent or rudimentary. Spore print is white or yellowish.
Key used: David Arora, 1986, Mushrooms Demystified

Keying Steps: 
1. Basidiomycota, bracket fungi.
2. Spore-bearing surface composed of tubes that form a united layer.
3. Bracket-like or shelf-like fruiting body.
4. Pore surface exposed. 
5. Pore surface different colored.
6. Normally with cap or resupinate if growing on undersides of logs.
7. Spore-bearing surface composed of tube layer that forms large pores.
8. Not dark brown or black cap and not tough with age. Pore surface not darker with age. 
9. Small to medium-sized fruiting body.    
10. Flesh white to yellow, yellow-beige or light brown. 
11. Does not contain pocket or maze-like pores.     
12. Not preceded with saucer-like "nest" where fruiting bodies develop from.
13. Larger than 1-5 mm and widely distributed throughout country.
14. Pore surface white to buff to yellowish. 
15. Pore surface not salmon colored or bright yellow. Pore surface dull colored.
16. Cap is hairy.
17. Pore surface not bright red or saffron.
18. Fertile surface not rosy or violet-tinged. 
19. Not rusty-reddish or bluish.
20. Pore surface not brown.
21. No breaking up in age to form small "teeth".
22. Pore surface not gray or smokey brown or black. 
23. Cap is hairy and velvety, found on dead wood. 
24. Cap is differently colored.
25. Cap 2-7 cm broad, with contrasting color zones and velvety to the touch. 
Trametes Versicolor        

       
Figure 1: Thallus of Turkey tail fungi. Notice difference in coloration on cap.
 
Figure 2: Pores under cap of Turkey tail under dissecting scope. 
 
Figure 3: Turkey tail thallus under dissecting scope.