Stats

Lifespan

A few months

Size

Medium

Diet

Decomposer

Biome

Tropical rainforest

Range

Worldwide

Movement

Sessile

Breeding

Spores

Defense

Toxins

Status

Uncommon

About

A tough bracket fungus whose pore surface is etched with elongated, maze-like slots instead of round pores, giving it a distinctive labyrinthine underside. It grows in overlapping shelves on dead hardwood across pantropical regions, breaking down lignin as a white-rot decomposer.

Life cycle

1. 1.
   spore

   A microscopic spore drifts on air or water and germinates where moisture and substrate meet.
2. 2.
   mycelium

   A thread-like mycelium spreads through the substrate, breaking it down into nutrients.
3. 3.
   fruiting body

   A mature fruiting body emerges to release the next generation of spores.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Polyporales

Family

Polyporaceae

Genus

Trametes

Species

Trametes elegans