The Santa Cruz Mycoflora Project

A Comprehensive Reference to the Macrofungi of Santa Cruz County

Genus: Bjerkandera

Family: Meruliaceae


Bjerkandera adusta

Bjerkandera adusta

Bjerkandera adusta

Known Species in the County

Approximately 1 species in Santa Cruz County.

Bjerkandera Records from Santa Cruz County:

Bjerkandera have fan-shaped beige fruitbodies with smoky-gray pores and are fairly distinctive in general, certainly in our area. Saprobic, causing a white rot on hardwoods, rather uncommon and apparently only Alder in our county.