Image of Cerrena unicolor (Bull.) Murrill 1903

Description:

Slo.: pepelasti zvitoluknjiar - (syn.: Daedalea unicolor) - Habitat: Pasture land, southeast oriented slopes, full sun, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 550 m (1.800 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: dead trunk of a small Ostrya carpinifolia laying on ground. - Comment: See an interesting story of the Cerrena unicolor, the Horntail Wasp Tremex Columba and the Ichneumonid wasp Megarhyssa at http://www.mushroomthejournal.com/mma/SC200304.html#cerrena - Ref.: A.Bernicchia, Polyporaceae s.l. in Italia, Instituto di Patologia Vegetale, Uni. degli Studi di Bologna (1990), pp458. http://www.messiah.edu/Oakes/fungi_on_wood/poroid%20fungi/species%20pages/Cerrena%20unicolor.htm