Thin-Walled Maze Polypore

(Daedaleopsis confragosa)

Conservation Status
Thin-Walled Maze Polypore
 
  IUCN Red List

not listed

 
  NatureServe

not listed

 
  Minnesota

not listed

 
           
           
           
 
Description
 
 

Thin-Walled Maze Polypore is a common, widespread, bracket fungus. It is found alone or in groups on logs and stumps of dead hardwood trees (saprobic). It is rarely found on oaks or conifers, and rarely found on wounds of live trees.

The fruiting body is a medium-sized, unstalked bracket. The bracket is fan-shaped or nearly round, and broadly convex or flat. It can be 2 to 8½ in diameter, but is usually no more than 6 in diameter. It is leathery and flexible or corky when fresh, becoming rigid and inflexible when dry. The upper surface is dry and hairless or slightly hairy. It is reddish-brown or grayish and usually concentrically zoned. The margin is thin and sharply angled.

The pores on the underside are white to tan or brown, thin-walled, and variable in shape. They bruise pink or reddish when young. They are usually elongated, maze-like, 1 64 to 1 16 wide, and up to deep. Sometimes they are almost round; sometimes almost gill-like; sometimes, in older specimens, almost tooth-like.

The flesh is white to pinkish or brownish and tough.

The spore print is white.

 
     
 

Similar Species

 
 

Oak Mazegill (Daedalea quercina) is larger. The pore walls are thicker. The flesh does not bruise pink. It occurs on oak.

 
     
 
Habitat and Hosts
 
 

Dead deciduous trees, especially willow and birch; rarely on oak or conifers; rarely on wounds of live trees.

 
     
 
Ecology
 
 

Season

 
 

Present year round but fruits from June to December

 
     
 
Distribution
 
 

Distribution Map

 

Sources

4, 7, 24, 26, 29, 30, 77.

 
  8/31/2022      
         
 

Occurrence

 
 

Common and widespread

 
         
 
Taxonomy
 
  Kingdom Fungi (fungi)  
  Subkingdom Dikarya  
  Division Basidiomycota (club fungi)  
  Subdivision Agaricomycotina (jelly fungi, yeasts, and mushrooms)  
  Class Agaricomycetes (mushrooms, bracket fungi, puffballs, and allies)  
  Subclass Agaricomycetidae  
  Order Polyporales (shelf fungi)  
  Family Polyporaceae (bracket fungi)  
  Genus Daedaleopsis  
       
 

Synonyms

 
     
       
 

Common Names

 
 

Blushing Bracket

Thin-Walled Maze Polypore

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Glossary

Polypore

A bracket fungi. A fungi that produces its spores in pores on the underside of a woody fruiting body (conk).

 

Saprobic

A term often used for saprotrophic fungi. Referring to fungi that obtain their nutrients from decayed organic matter.

 
 
Visitor Photos
 
           
 

Share your photo of this fungus.

 
  This button not working for you?
Simply email us at info@MinnesotaSeasons.com.
Attach one or more photos and, if you like, a caption.
 
 

Margot Avey

 
    Thin-Walled Maze Polypore      
 

Luciearl

 
    Thin-Walled Maze Polypore   Thin-Walled Maze Polypore  
           
 
MinnesotaSeasons.com Photos
 
    Thin-Walled Maze Polypore   Thin-Walled Maze Polypore  

 

Camera

     
 
Slideshows
 
  Daedaleopsis confragosa
Friedrich Flint
 
   
 
About

Published on Apr 15, 2012

I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor)

 
  Daedalea confragosa - fungi kingdom
Fungi Kingdom
 
   
 
About

Published on Jan 23, 2015

Daedalea confragosa - fungi kingdom

 

 

slideshow

       
 
Visitor Videos
 
       
 

Share your video of this mammal.

 
  This button not working for you?
Simply email us at info@MinnesotaSeasons.com.
Attach a video, a YouTube link, or a cloud storage link.
 
 

 

 
     
     
       
       
 
Other Videos
 
  Síťkovec načervenalý - Daedaleopsis confragosa
Jiří Laštůvka - Kudláček
 
   
 
About

Uploaded on Mar 3, 2010

Fungi - Síťkovec načervenalý - Daedaleopsis confragosa

   

 

Camcorder

 
 
Visitor Sightings
 
           
 

Report a sighting of this fungus.

 
  This button not working for you?
Simply email us at info@MinnesotaSeasons.com.
Be sure to include a location.
 
  Margot Avey
8/31/2022

Westwood Hills Nature Center, St. Louis Park, MN (St. Louis Park, MN)

Thin-Walled Maze Polypore  
  Luciearl
12/22/2019

Location: Cass County

Thin-Walled Maze Polypore  
           
 
MinnesotaSeasons.com Sightings
 
   

 

 

Binoculars


Last Updated:

About Us | Privacy Policy | Contact Us | © MinnesotaSeasons.com. All rights reserved.