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Brown and White Wood Ears

Brown and White Wood Ears

Species Unidentified (but if anyone can make an ID please do)

Photo made about a half mile into the woods beyond the public fishing access area at the Upper Barton Creek portion of Falls Lake.

July 15, 2008

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breakPRranks

Tree scales!

I'm nuts about tree scales! (That's what I've always known them as.) They're one of the most colorful funji in the forest; the variations are nearly infinite, almost like snowflakes.

It's funny, but I've never thought of tree scales as having a species -- as being classifiable -- maybe because they are as varied as snowflakes. That's wild.

Has anyone published field guides to them?

Java55

Tree scales!

I don't know if there is any resemblance to a complete field guide to fungi as I believe there are propably more species of these than flowers and insects combined, but jpo_05_09_07 posted a link for another species for me except I believe the page she was aiming for had scrolled onwards, but here's a link to the beginning, but be prepared - there are a LOT of contributions here!

http://mushroomobserver.org/image/list_images