FungiFriday - Gymnopilus suberis and Google knows everything

I am having such terrible brain farts sometimes you have no idea 😂
I keep seeing this orange mushrooms which is not surprising. There is plenty of cork trees here and this one really likes to grow on the bark. This much I figured out myself.

But when it comes to the name... I tried once and then gave up. I accepted the fact that it is a nightmare to ID mushroom if they can look very different even when it is the same specie.

But what is Uncle Google for? The most ridiculous searches something give good results.
So I typed "orange mushrooms growing on cork trees". I kid you not. It was that easy! I just need a kick sometimes...

Tadaaa!!

Gymnopilus suberis

As I already noticed myself it is a mushrooms that grows specifically on decaying cork bark. I have found it preciously in different locations, but always on pieces of bark or branches that were already slowly decomposing in the grasses.

Knowing that we could suspect it to grow in Mediterranean region as this is where cork trees grow. They should not grow in colder parts of Europe. One - it is too cold, two - no cork trees there.

Now here is an interesting thing I read: apparently this mushroom, despite being very regional, started to appear in Czech Republic and on different type of tree. You have to know that Czech is much colder country with snowy winters, but hot summers. But with the climate changing they started to appear there. Not that I am happy about it, but it is an interesting observation.

You can read more about it this paper: Mediterranean fungus Gymnopilus suberis discovered in Central Europe.

And a not a very attractive bonus a group of completely dried up ones.
I did pick them up as they were growing in a shady spot and there would be no way for me to take a photo and placed them in a sun. No worries - they are dead already. It was a nice little group though of about 5 mushrooms and connected with each other.

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