Top 20 Most Common Mushrooms in Angren
Most Common Mushrooms
1. Reishi
The reishi (Ganoderma lucidum) is a large shelf fungus that grows as a bracket off the sides of trees, or occasionally as a rosette on the tops of stumps. Its surface is smooth and shiny. Growing wild from warm temperate zones to the subtropics, the reishi is also cultivated on grain and sawdust for commercial use. The mushroom has cultural significance in some Chinese cultures.
2. Cushion bracket
Cushion bracket is a parasitic fungus and a problem for landscapers and in forests. Spores from the fungus enter trees through pruning wounds and produce large cushion-like brackets. The fungus advances through and gradually decays the heartwood before entering the sapwood causing the limbs and branches to soften.
3. Turkey tail
The distinctively-striped turkey tail fungus grows on stumps and logs all over the forests of the northern hemisphere. It is, in fact, probably the most common species you will find. That doesn't mean this mushroom is plain, however; each cap is uniquely patterned. Look for bands of alternating textures as well as color.
4. Hairy bracket
The hairy bracket is a polypore that grows on dead hardwoods, with beech trees being a particularly favored host. The species usually grows in solitary, semi-circular shelves that protrude outwards from branches or boles. Although their color is muted, you may still catch sight of them in winter - because they sport tough, leathery bodies, they can persist even after most fruiting mushrooms have faded away for the season.
5. Tiger sawgill
The tiger sawgill (Lentinus tigrinus) is a small mushroom with a name that is not particularly accurate. Sporting neither the color nor the pattern that we commonly associate with the tiger, it has a subdued, pale cap that is usually covered in brown patches. The eighteenth-century European that named the species may have been thinking of a leopard.
6. Brownflesh bracket
7. Artist's conk
This shelf fungus can live for several consecutive years and can be dated by the growth ridges seen on its dark surface. Artist's conk grows in tiered groups at the bases of oak, beech, and conifers, as well as deadwood. When its spores release, they cover the area with visible brown dust. Scratches in the white undersurface create dark lines.
8. Trametes trogii
9. Elbowpatch crust
The inedible punctate or upholstery sponge (Fomitiporia punctata, Syn. Phellinus punctatus) is a species of fungus in the family of bristle-bladder relatives. The fungus also forms on vertical stems flat to pincushion fruiting bodies, which have very small, gray to brown pores on their smooth surface. Setae are missing and the big spurs are almost spherical. The perennial, clearly stratified fruiting bodies are found all year round on hardwood, mostly on pastures and hazels.
10. Gloeophyllum abietinum
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