Lab 5: iNaturalist Journal

Ganoderma applanatum aka the artist's fungus

The species name, Ganoderma applanatum, derives from Ganoderma, meaning possessing a shiny skin, and applanatum, meaning having a flat shape (Zabel, Morrell, 2020). Ganoderma applanatum is a white-rot fungus with a shelf-like appearance that grows typically at the bases of decaying hardwoods stumps or on hardwood logs in a fruiting structure or perennial conk (Zabel, Morrell, 2020). Some distinguishing features of Ganoderma applanatum are its creamy white underside, hymenium, that bruises brown for years when scratched, allowing them to produce artistic images, hence the common name (Zabel, Morrell, 2020). They are saprobic and parasitic meaning they survive by decomposing decaying natural material as food or consuming the tissue of living organisms as a form of nutrients (Zabel, Morrell, 2020). Ganoderma applanatum decays the lignin in the hardwood they inhabit, resulting in a white string-like decay of the wood (Zabel, Morrell, 2020).

Robert A. Zabel, Jeffrey J. Morrell, in Wood Microbiology (Second Edition), 2020

Publicado el octubre 22, 2021 04:40 MAÑANA por vanessarong