Artist's Large 16x14" Red Belt Mushroom, Fomitopsis pinicola Red-Banded Polypore

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Artist's Large 16x14" Red Belt Mushroom, Fomitopsis pinicola Red-Banded Polypore
This large red-banded polypore mushroom was sustainability harvested in the Rocky Mountains of northwestern Montana.
The shelf mushroom is air-dried, and measures 16 inches wide, 14 inches tall, and 8 inches thick, measured at the base. These mushrooms make great canvas medium for oil or acrylic paint, as well as wood burning, and photographic transfer processes. The colors and sheen of the red and black top of the mushroom can be brought out with varnish, shellac, wax, or linseed oil.
Fomitopsis pinicola complex. Red Belt Conk is one of many common names this fungus may go by, including, Red-Belted Mushroom, Red-Band Polypore, Red-Banded Conk and several other plays on this theme. The scientific synonyms are probably more varied and numerous, with little consensus at this time. Fomitopsis pinicola is the most familiar of these, but others include, Fomitopsis mounaceae, Fomes pinicola, Boletus pinicola, Fomitopsis ochracea, Polyporus ponderosus, Fomes marginatus, Fomes ungulatus, Fomitopsis schrenkii and probably a half dozen more. Most North American references still use the "Fomitopsis pinicola" nomenclature for the time being, even though Fomitopsis pinicola sensu stricto is thought to be restricted to parts of Europe and Asia. More research in the form of DNA sequencing and sample testing will be needed before consensus can be settled upon.
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Polyporales
Family: Fomitopsidaceae
Genus: Fomitopsis
Species: F. cf. pinicola
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