Roan Blakeley - Lab 5 - Lumpy Bracket

Trametes gibbosa, or Lumpy Bracket, is a non-edible species of fungus that is observed often found growing on dead wood in regions including northern North America and northern Europe. Lumpy Brackets are characterized by large pores (length up to 4 milimeters) that extend in a somewhat circularly from the center, a tough texture and an absence of a stem. The color changes throughout the fungus life cycle. They are whitish when they are young, then move to becoming more cream colored, and eventually gray. The Lumpy Bracket is a basidiomycete, with a four spore basidia. This means that it undergoes sexual reproduction, and the visible part of the fungus is the reproductive body. Lumpy Brackets have smooth, elliptic spores which vary from 4-5.5 by 2-2.5 microns (Gibson 2020).

Posted on October 19, 2021 02:20 PM by roanblakeley