ID please

[Jox]

Found a few of these growing down the back of my work near a creek, they remind me a lot of a turkey tail but grow a stem. They are all growing out of fallen timber.

Top veiw

Underside

Sorry about the photo quality, they have pores instead of gills. Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers

Jox

[Berengar]

Wow, thats so pretty!

It is a Polyporus or one of the offshoot genera, but unfortunately I cant tell you more than that.

[Jox]

They are beautiful. Thanks for your reply Tangich, with a bit of searching through the Polypores group I managed to work out what I have found , it is Microporus xanthopus, the Yellow-footed Polypore. I have seen that it is suppose to have medicinal properties but can't find much more than that, one thing I read said tribes in Malaysia gave it to children to stop them breast feeding . If anyone has more info on this mushroom please let me know.

Cheers

Jox

[ace1928]

Could be Coltricia cinnamomea too? not certain but looks pretty much the same. Unfortunately looks so damn similiar to microporous too haha.

[Jox]

Hey ace, I had a look at Coltricia cinnamomea as a possibility as some photos from above the fruit look quite similar but I ruled it out as there underside is different.

C. cinnamomea has pores that are visible with your eye, 2-3 per mm were M. xanthopus has tiny pores that are very hard to see, 8-10 per mm. Also the yellow base or "foot" of the stem of M. xanthopus seems to be a good way to ID them.

Cheers

Jox

[ace1928]

Ahh sweet
It's always easier to finally verify it in person haha. Just sometimes hard to narrow down the options.

Awesome specimen too