BioImages (UK) BIOTA (living things) Eukaryota (eukaryotes) FUNGI SS. (true fungi) BASIDIOMYCOTA (spore droppers) BASIDIOMYCETES (spore droppers) AGARICOMYCETIDAE (a subclass of basidiomycetes) POLYPORALES (polypores) MERIPILACEAE (giant polypores) Grifola frondosa (Hen Of The Woods) Record Grifola frondosa is also a member of: Fungi sl. Lower Plants (via Fungi ss.)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK) Grifola frondosa (Dicks.) Gray, 1821 (Hen Of The Woods) Date: 21 October 2000 OS grid ref: SU56 Lat/Lon: 51° 30' N, 1° 10' W Location: Vice County: Berks, VC22, England Voucher: 21/10/2000[B] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) Stage or state: Fruitbody Record Summary: at base of Oak Associated organism: at base of trunk of Quercus Identification Notes: Tongue-shaped lobes, flesh fibrous, tearing easily. Smell: fungussy. Spore print: white, non-amyloid. Spores: 6-7/4-5µm, ovoid. Images standard photographs and close-ups macro-photographs microscope photographs << Click on a thumbnail

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