{"id":654,"date":"2015-11-04T07:20:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T13:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=654"},"modified":"2015-11-04T16:55:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T22:55:28","slug":"true-tinder-polypore-fomes-fomentarius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=654","title":{"rendered":"True Tinder Polypore <em>(Fomes fomentarius)<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/True_Tinder_Polypore_02s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-655\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/True_Tinder_Polypore_02s.jpg\" alt=\"True Tinder Polypore\" width=\"219\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyone who spends time in the woods in the northern half of North America is likely come across a hoof-shaped fungus growing on the side of a tree or log. One of the most common and widespread hoof fungi is True Tinder Polypore <em>(Fomes fomentarius)<\/em>. It is usually found on birch on a live tree or a standing or fallen dead tree. An individual conk (the hoof-shaped fruiting body) can survive for years, even decades, forming a new ridge or furrow each year.<\/p>\n<p>True Tinder Polypore gets its name from its most common usage, as tinder for starting fires. Otzi the Iceman, the 5,000-year-old mummy found in the Alps in 1991, was carrying four pieces of it.<\/p>\n<p>This species can easily be confused with another birch-loving fungus, False Tinder Fungus <em>(Phellinus igniarius)<\/em>. True Tinder Polypore is distinguished by the lighter, uncracked upper surface of older specimens; whitish margin of actively growing layer and underside; pore tubes that are not layered; and lack of white threads running through the cut flesh.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaseasons.com\/Fungi\/True_Tinder_Polypore.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/minnesotaseasons.com\/Fungi\/True_Tinder_Polypore.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=654\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who spends time in the woods in the northern half of North America is likely come across a hoof-shaped fungus growing on the side of a tree or log. One of the most common and widespread hoof fungi is True Tinder Polypore (Fomes fomentarius). It is usually found on birch on a live tree [&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":[253,252],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654"}],"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=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}