A bracket fungus in which the spores are expelled through fine pores on the underside.
多孔菌
Several families in the order Aphyllophorales, class Hymenomycetes, in particular Polyporaceae, which includes the birch polypore (Piptoporus formerly 'Polyporus' betulinus)
Example sentencesExamples
A visitor this past Tuesday was teaching me a few of the dried-up fungi one can find this time of year in PA, mostly shelf fungi or polypores with wild names.
See sulphur shelf and beefsteak fungus for the best-known edible examples; and polypores for some others.
Definition of polypore in US English:
polypore
nounˈpäliˌpôr
A bracket fungus in which the spores are expelled through fine pores on the underside.
多孔菌
Several families in the order Aphyllophorales, class Hymenomycetes, in particular Polyporaceae, which includes the dryad saddle
Example sentencesExamples
See sulphur shelf and beefsteak fungus for the best-known edible examples; and polypores for some others.
A visitor this past Tuesday was teaching me a few of the dried-up fungi one can find this time of year in PA, mostly shelf fungi or polypores with wild names.