QUODITCH EDUCATION DEVON

This page contains details of the various bracket fungi that we have found at Quoditch.

This is Blushing Bracket fungus (Daeduleopsis confragosa) and it is quite common throughout the area.

	This is a many zoned Polypore (Coriolus Versicolor) which can be found mainly on tree stumps in the fourth field.

Birch Polypore or Razor Strop Fungus Piptoporus Betulinus or Polyporus Betulinus This was used at one time to sharpen razors. We were also told that it was used by entymologists as a backing to display their collections before expanded polystyrene was invented! Over the years this will gradually infiltrate the birch tree, and, after about forty or so years, will kill it. Some of these are about 25 centimetres across.

REFERENCES

Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain and Europe, Roger Phillips   (Macmillan  Reference 1994)

Country Guides - Fungi of Britain and Northern Europe, Paul Sterry (Chancellor Press 1991)

A Magna Field Guide - Mushrooms, Mirko Svrcek (Magna Books 1994)

Encyclopaedia of Fungi - Gerrit J Keiser (Rebo Productions 1997)

Field Guide to the Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain & Europe - David Pegler (Kingfisher Books 1998)

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