Large, soft, smelly conks bloom from the cracks and seams of a sugar maple. The fruiting body of the spine tooth fungus is a delicate beauty; external evidence of a devastating internal rot caused by hyphae that can stretch up to 5 meters above and below the external fruit. Maples attacked by spine tooth will rapidly degrade, and should probably be removed.  |
Spine tooth fungus, October 4th, 2011 |
Defect: Spine Tooth fungus (climacodon septrionalis)
Defect importance: Major
Tree Species: Sugar Maple (acer saccharum)
Collected from: Shaw Woods
Date Collected: October 4th, 2011
Professor: Erroll Downey, Course: Forest Health
