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Fruiting Bodies
Conks are rare. They grown on a root of fallen stem of a tree killed by laminated root rot. They are thin, leathery when fresh and friable with age, light weight, yellow to cinnamon brown with small pores.
USDA Forest Service Archive
Ectotrophic mycelium of the root disease Phellinus weirii, which causes decay in conifer trees.
William Jacobi
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Symptoms
Laminated butt rot in western redcedar log forms concentric rings of decay.
USDA Forest Service Archive
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Symptoms
Examined longitudinally, wood decayed by Phellinus weirii separates easily into thin concentric sheets.
Susan K. Hagle
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Symptoms
Brown stain is sometimes seen in the sapwood or outer heartwood of trees with laminated root rot.
Robert L. James
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Symptoms
Laminated root rot separates easily at the annual rings and is pitted with tiny holes. Cinnamon brown mycelium and tiny hairlike hyphae are often found in the decay.
John W. Schwandt
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Symptoms
Decay from laminated root rot has distinctive round pits about pinhead-size.
Susan K. Hagle
Wind-thrown 60-year-old Pseudotsuga menziesii, showing advanced Inonotus weirii decay in the roots and root collar; note how the roots break close to the root collar, creating "root balls".