One of my favorite things to do on our daily walks is to sniff out mushrooms and other fungi and point them out to Tinkerbelle. Tinkerbelle keeps track of all the different varieties that I find. The peak season for mushroom fruiting is spring and early summer, and so by now, most of the mushrooms have disappeared. But, sometimes when you are least expecting it, you find the thing you weren't expecting to find. And so it was this morning, as we walked along the trail, that I caught the pleasant scent of a polypore. Tracking the scent, I uncovered a large fruiting specimen carefully concealed in the foliage. Commonly found in wooded areas, polypores are identified by their dense layers of fan-shaped brackets. This one is possibly a bitter polypore or a black-staining polypore.
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| I tracked the scent of a polypore |
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| The polypore was concealed in the foliage |
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