madmushlove: Resinous polyporeIschnoderma resinosumFall is my favorite season for mushrooming.This y
madmushlove: Resinous polyporeIschnoderma resinosumFall is my favorite season for mushrooming.This year, I started photographing and cooking resinous polypore at October’s end.What a shocking find this was on a massive beech. They are called “resinous” polypore as they’ll often exude a golden guttation, sweating excess fluid from the polypores.They almost look like they’re dripping with honey. The “resin” is their species namesake, resinosum.This fungi is mostly saprobic, feeding on dead wood, though they’ll sometimes finish off a dying tree as parasites. Their polypore fruiting bodies often have an extending, lobular growth encrusting the tree’s surface before shelfing.I dry pan the tender parts like beef and eat them with steak sauce. They can have a nice texture with a wonderful savory taste when collected and cooked right.They practically explode in the autumn, appearing everywhere wood rots and growing rather quickly.By December, most will be fairly tough and dry, but even then I’ll find a few young ones.Truly a beautiful fungal fruiting body, adding of course to nature’s fall delights. -- source link