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Fungi: Basidiomycota: Agaricomycetes: Polyporales: Polyporaceae: Tyromyces chioneus (Fr.) P.Karst.

Tyromyces chioneus – White Cheese Polypore

Synonyms: Bjerkandera chionea, Boletus candidus, Leptoporus albellus, Leptoporus chioneus, Leptoporus lacteus, Polyporus albellus, Polyporus candidus, Polyporus chioneus, Polystictus chioneus, Tyromyces albellus, Ungularia chionea.

Common name: White Cheese Polypore.

Extract from Wikipedia article: Tyromyces chioneus, commonly known as the white cheese polypore, is a species of polypore fungus. A widely distributed fungus, it has a circumpolar distribution, in temperate boreal pine forests, of Asia, Europe, and North America, causes white rot in dead hardwood trees, especially birch

Finnish: Liitukääpä, Polish: Białak śnieżysty, Swedish: Snövit ticka.

Photos of this mushroom from East and Central Texas

White cheese polypore mushrooms (<B>Tyromyces chioneus</B>)(?) on cut oak logs in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, <A HREF="../date-en/2021-10-28.htm">October 28, 2021</A>
LinkWhite cheese polypore mushrooms (Tyromyces chioneus)(?) on cut oak logs in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 28, 2021
Location on mapsRacoon Run Trail, College Station, Brazos County, Texas, United States
White cheese polypore mushrooms (<B>Tyromyces chioneus</B>)(?) on edge of cut oak logs in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, <A HREF="../date-en/2021-10-28.htm">October 28, 2021</A>
LinkWhite cheese polypore mushrooms (Tyromyces chioneus)(?) on edge of cut oak logs in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 28, 2021
Location on mapsRacoon Run Trail, College Station, Brazos County, Texas, United States
Cross section of white cheese polypore mushrooms (<B>Tyromyces chioneus</B>)(?) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, <A HREF="../date-en/2021-10-28.htm">October 28, 2021</A>
LinkCross section of white cheese polypore mushrooms (Tyromyces chioneus)(?) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 28, 2021
Location on mapsRacoon Run Trail, College Station, Brazos County, Texas, United States

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