



laetiporus gilbertsonii
The Western Hardwood Sulphur Shelf is a bright orange-yellow mushroom that looks like a shelf growing on trees! Kids will love spotting these fun fungi in the forest.
Lebensraum: It lives on decaying hardwood trees in forests.
The Western Hardwood Sulphur Shelf has vibrant, overlapping fan-shaped shelves that are bright orange-yellow on top and pale yellow underneath. It lacks traditional gills, instead releasing spores from tiny pores, and often appears in dramatic, cascading clusters.




Kategorie
PilzeSeltenheit
Common
Gefahr
1/5 · Sehr gering
Snaps
Mach den ersten Snap!
It's sometimes called 'chicken of the woods' because of its unique texture and taste!
Look closely! The underside is covered in tiny pores, not gills, for spore release.
This mushroom often grows so large it could cover your backpack!
You might find these bright shelves growing many feet up a tree trunk!
Western Hardwood Sulphur Shelf can digest tough wood because of powerful enzymes that help them recycle forest nutrients.
Western Hardwood Sulphur Shelf has a layered, shelf-like growth that helps them spread millions of spores wide.
Western Hardwood Sulphur Shelf has brilliant, eye-catching colors that may signal its presence to hungry animals.

Quercus agrifolia
grows on its dead or dying wood

Acer macrophyllum
found on its decaying trunks and branches
Odocoileus hemionus
sometimes nibbled by deer in the forest
Farbenfroh beschreibt Organismen oder Objekte, die eine große Vielfalt an leuchtenden und deutlich erkennbaren Farben aufweisen.
Waldlebensräume sind terrestrische Lebensräume, die von dichtem Baumbestand dominiert werden und eine große Vielfalt an Pflanzen- und Tierarten beherbergen.
Beschreibt Organismen, die totes organisches Material abbauen und Nährstoffe in das Ökosystem zurückführen.
Gefahr
1/5 · Sehr gering
Always ask an adult before touching or eating wild mushrooms.
5-30 cm
edible
10-60 cm
It lives on decaying hardwood trees in forests.
wood
Sommer, Herbst
White
Zoome hinein, um Cluster aufzulösen und zu sehen, wo dieses Objekt fotografiert wurde.
Neueste Snaps erscheinen hier, wenn neue Beobachtungen hinzukommen.