{"id":3015,"date":"2013-06-17T12:42:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T04:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=3015"},"modified":"2013-06-17T19:18:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T11:18:29","slug":"coltricia-cinnamomea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/17\/coltricia-cinnamomea\/","title":{"rendered":"Coltricia cinnamomea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130615-069.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3036\" alt=\"coltricia cinnamomea\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130615-069-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130615-069-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130615-069.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I was thrilled to find these delicate funnel shaped fungus, with caps ranging from 20-50mm across. \u00a0It\u00a0looked like someone&#8217;s mini wood working project &#8211; and I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/morwellnp.pangaean.net\/cgi-bin\/show_species.cgi?find_this=Coltricia%20cinnamomea\" target=\"_blank\">one site<\/a> call the <a href=\"http:\/\/australianfungi.blogspot.com.au\/2010\/09\/49-coltricia-cinnamomea.html\" target=\"_blank\">Coltricia cinnamomea<\/a> a fairy stool.\u00a0 \u00a0It has concentric rings on the cap that make it look like the iris in an eye and \u00a0some similar species are also called Tigers Eye. \u00a0\u00a0It is growing where we did a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/14\/controlled-burn\/\" target=\"_blank\">controlled burn<\/a>\u00a0a couple of years ago and like pretty much all the fungi in our forest is inedible. \u00a0I\u00a0originally thought it was a <a href=\"http:\/\/australianfungi.blogspot.com.au\/2011\/05\/53-microporus-xanthopus.html\">microporus xanthopus<\/a> until I read that meant yellow footed and it was a tropical species.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mushroomexpert.com\/coltricia_cinnamomea.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Mushroom Expert<\/a> describes it as <em>a\u00a0beautiful little<a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130615-070.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3035\" alt=\"20130615 070\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130615-070-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130615-070-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130615-070.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> vase-shaped polypore, recognized by its silky, cinnamon cap. When fresh, the cap surface has a sheen and is delicately zoned with concentric bands of cinnamon brown. The flesh is tough and leathery, and when sliced open, is rusty brown or even orange. \u00a0Coltricia cinnamomea\u00a0and the handful of other species in\u00a0Coltriciaare the only polypores with central stems.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fnanaturesearch.org\/index.php?option=com_naturesearch&amp;task=view&amp;id=148\" target=\"_blank\">According to this site<\/a>, <em>the related\u00a0Coltricia perennis is\u00a0usually found on recently burned ground and\u00a0is a typical &#8220;early successional species&#8221; which first come back after a forest fire. \u00a0It is hard to separate from the closely related species Coltricia cinnamomea without a microscope. Compounds extracted from this fungus have been shown to have antitumor effects.<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogersmushrooms.com\/gallery\/DisplayBlock~bid~5834.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Rogers Mushrooms<\/a>\u00a0sums it up pretty well as\u00a0<em>brown with concentric bands of color; dry, velvety and shiny.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was thrilled to find these delicate funnel shaped fungus, with caps ranging from 20-50mm across. \u00a0It\u00a0looked like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fungi","category-property","category-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130615-069.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3092,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions\/3092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}