{"id":44,"date":"2014-02-05T11:38:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T17:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2014-02-05T11:38:28","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T17:38:28","slug":"northern-tooth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Northern Tooth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_45\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Northern_Tooth_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45\" alt=\"Photo by Bill Reynolds\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Northern_Tooth_01-240x300.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Northern_Tooth_01-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Northern_Tooth_01.jpg 577w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Bill Reynolds<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Northern Tooth <em>(Climacodon septentrionalis)<\/em> is a widespread and fairly common tooth fungus. The fruiting body is annual and often massive, up to 20\u2033 tall and 10\u2033 wide. It consists of tight, overlapping layers of shelf-like caps joined at the base by a whitish plate. It lives high on the trunks if living hardwood trees, especially sugar maple. It enters the tree through a wound and causes heartwood rot. It is sometimes found on recently dead trees and stumps but is rarely found on fallen logs.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Tooth is not poisonous but is not edible due to a bitter taste and a tough texture. It has a sour smell when it is fresh, an unpleasant, rancid odor as it dries.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Northern Tooth on MinnesotaSeasons.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Fungi\/Northern_Tooth.html\" target=\"_blank\">Northern Tooth (Climacodon septentrionalis)<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=44\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Tooth (Climacodon septentrionalis) is a widespread and fairly common tooth fungus. The fruiting body is annual and often massive, up to 20\u2033 tall and 10\u2033 wide. It consists of tight, overlapping layers of shelf-like caps joined at the base by a whitish plate. It lives high on the trunks if living hardwood trees, especially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}