The writer first met with it in North Carolina, near Washington, on oaks and railroad timbers, and in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. It attains quite a size, grows singly and in clusters. Its clean, cake-like appearance is attractive. Cooked it ranks with P. ulmarius, L. lepideus, and Panus strigosus.
PA´NUS Fr.
A name given to a tree-growing fungus by Pliny.
Panus torulosus.
About one-fourth natural size.
Whole fungus between fleshy and leathery, tough, not woody, texture fibrous. Gills unequal, tough, becoming leathery, edge acute and unbroken. Stem present or absent.
Growing on wood. Various in form, lasting long. Allied to Lentinus but differing in the tough and very entire gills.
Spores even, white.