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Panellus or Late oyster mushroom

Surprised to see a live mushroom in middle of winter? Another benefit of living in temperate rainforest

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Panellus is one of the easier mushrooms to identify locally because it flourishes when no other self-respecting mushroom would dare show its pileus (cap—fruiting body)

P. serotinus (if that is the correct species name) has a wide distribution, usually on decaying hardwoods, so it has fairly good coverage on WWW. Locally it is prominent on alders at this time of year

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Printed books have few illustrations because if is expensive.

Here is a site that shows how the WWW can be used. It is technical but it illustrates what can be done. And with a little more information even this collection of micrographs could be used by a high school course

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Winter Scene in Rainforest

Winter is a time for the “humble” to emerge—here, I mean all those mosses and ferns that during the more garish months of greenery are pushed into relative obscurity by their larger, more ostentatious neighbors.

Here is a scene from Moresby Park near the fish ladder where Panellus is easily observed from the path. Note too how quickly these blocks of wood have become covered with moss. Presumably cut when fishladder built that is only a year ago.

Other noteworthy sites

Wisconsin images that could have been taken here so similar

California university course site with good technical description

Taxonomy

Many taxonomists are skeptical of morphologically simple plants all being related. The gilled mushrooms are hard to identify because they all look similar. Does that necessarily mean they are related. Until the coming of DNA chemical analysis the experts could only debate the issue ad infinitum.

Now we are beginning to get real data. Panellus was one of mushrooms studied to see how closely gilled mushrooms really related. “The” answer shows all sides were partly correct. Most are related but same morphology has emerged many times from unrelated ancestors

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