Snow-Covered Mushroom - Who am I? Win 1 STEEM
Before leaving the country last Sunday morning, we went for a second snowshoe trip in the forest on Saturday and found another type of mushroom/fungus attached to a birch tree.
It snowed the night before, so it was partially covered in snow. It seems like it would do a good job of providing shelter from the snow. At least, for whatever critter could sit on the middle fungus and be protected from the larger cap above.
I had taken two other pictures, but apparently I didn't press on the phone button properly, as I only ended up with this one shot.
Can you tell me what fungus this is? I couldn't find it when searching for it by it's description.
I will give 1 STEEM to whoever identifies it correctly and links to a page that proves what it is.
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Hard to pinpoint exact species, but definitely a fungus of the Piptoporus genus. They are plentiful in Denmark :)
Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piptoporus
What a great find of the trio and covered in snow is a cool bonus.
Birch Polypore. You can make a nice tea with them. Medicinal.
https://www.ediblewildfood.com/birch-polypore.aspx
Are you sure? I don't see one that looks like the photo really. It had dark gills underneath as I recall, which was more visible on the other photo that was not taken. But maybe that was just the shading making it look darker than the top. I guess in time they get more brown?
If it has gills then it is not a birch polyphore.
Ok sorry not gills, but a darker underbelly. This is probably the correct mushroom name ;)
I believe dry ones can also be used as tinder to start a fire, but of course the bark of the birch tree is one of the best natural tinder sources so if you can find a birch tree you are all set anyways.
That's a birch polyphore, the birch tree gives it away.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=birch+polyphore&t=ffab&atb=v148-7__&iax=images&ia=images