Specimen #11 Trametes Vericolor Mushroom Sample

Figure 1: Shows the coloration throughout the
top of the tranmetes vericolor. 

Figure 2: Can see the hairlike contents on top of the
mushroom. Shows the different coloration's that are
present. Can see the rigid sides.

Figure 3: back side of the
tranmetes vericolor. No gills
present and have tube like
structures. No root system
present.

Name: Trametes Vericolor
Common Name: Turkey Tail
Family: Polyporaceae
Collected Date: 10/22/16
Habitat: Often found in groups, fused rows, or overlapping clusters on dead hardwoods. Also, found on decayed sapwood and can sometimes parasitize fruit trees. 
Location: Hiram College Field Station
Description: Thin and leathery when fresh, rigid or slightly flexible when dry. Cap broad, tongue-shaped becoming fan-shaped or growing in circular rosettes. Plane or wavy, velvety to touch. Hairy zones on top of the fungus. A mixture of white, gray, brown, yellowish-buff. Often can be wavy and white or creamy when actively growing. Flesh is very thin, tough, and white. 
Key Used: David Arora. 1986. Mushroom Demystified
Keying Steps:
1. Not as above so spore-beading surface not composed of tubes 
2. Fruiting body knoblike, hooflike, bracketlike, stalk absent, growing on wood
3. Spore surface exposed; not growing on birch 
4. Not as above.. so pore surface differently colored 
6. Fruiting body normally with cap 
7. Spore-bearing surface with tubes 
8. Not with above features 
9. Not as above so fruiting body usual annual small to medium size 
10. Not as above.. so flesh white to yellow. Sometimes light brown or salmon
11. Not as above so no elongated pores
12. Not as above 
13. Not as above. Usually larger and widely distributed
14. Pore surface red to orange, orange-yellow or salmon in color

Pg 592.
1. Not as above so surface is not bright orange or red
2. Fertile surface not rosy or violet 
3. Not as above so fruiting body is not fleshy
4. Not as above so the tubes are not unequal in length or slotlike
5. Not as above so pores not broken up into teeth like structures
6 Not as above so pore surface is not gray to smoky-brown or black