Trametes suaveolens L.: Fr.
fragrant bracket
Polyporaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
fragrant bracket
Polyporaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
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Species Information
Summary:
Features include 1) a white to grayish white or buff non-zoned bracket-like fruitbody, relatively thick with a rounded margin, 2) relatively large pores, 3) a pleasant anise smell when fresh, and 4) growth on Salix and Populus. Haploporus odorus (L.) Donk is a synonym according the online Species Fungorum, accessed Sep. 12, 2018, but not Haploporus odorus (Sommerf.) Bondartsev & Singer.
Odor:
pleasant anise when fresh, (Gilbertson), conspicuous anise when fresh (Breitenbach)
Taste:
indistinct (Buczacki)
Microscopic:
spores 9-12 x 4-4.5 microns, cylindric, smooth, inamyloid, colorless, thin-walled; basidia 4-spored, 22-40 x 6-7 microns, clavate, with basal clamp; cystidia absent; hyphae trimitic, generative hyphae of context 3-5 microns wide, "thin-walled, rarely branched, with clamps", skeletal hyphae of context 4-7.5 microns wide, "thick-walled, nonseptate, rarely branched", binding hyphae of context 2.5-5 microns wide, "thick-walled, much branched"; hyphae of trama similar, (Gilbertson), spores 7-11 x 3-3.5(4) microns, cylindric to slightly curved, smooth, inamyloid, colorless, (Breitenbach)
Spore Deposit:
white (Buczacki)
Notes:
Trametes suaveolens has been found in BC, ID, AB, MB, NB, NS, ON, PQ, YT, AK, AZ, CT, GA, IA, KS, MA, ME, MN, MO, MT, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, SD, UT, VT, WI, and WY, (Gilbertson). It also occurs in Europe and Asia (Breitenbach).
Habitat and Range
SIMILAR SPECIES
Haploporus odorus is similar macroscopically and has and anise odor, but it is slightly darker in color, grows only on Salix (rarely Fraxinus), has a restricted range, and spores are smaller and finely spiny, (Gilbertson). Gloeophyllum odoratum inhabits conifer logs and fallen branches and has brown flesh (Ginns). Ischnoderma resinosum has a dark brown cap and spores only 4-7 microns long (Ginns).Habitat
annual, most common on Salix (willow) and Populus, also reported on Betula (birch) and Abies (fir), associated with white heartrot of living hardwoods and also on stumps, (Gilbertson), single or imbricate [shingled], often concrescent, on "old, dead or still living trunks and branches of Salix (willow)", (Breitenbach)
Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Platygloea vestita Bourdot & Galzin