Sulfur yellow tinder Latin: LaetÃÂporus sulphúreus is a tinder mushroom of the Polypore family Polyporaceae. Fruit bodies are annual, usually located low above the ground on tree trunks or stumps. At the first stage of development, the sulfur-yellow tinder looks like a teardrop-shaped yellowish fleshy mass from intense yellow to orange in color `floating form`. Gradually, the fruit body hardens, acquiring the characteristic shape of the `ear` for tinder, consisting of several fused fan-shaped pseudo-lobes, often sitting on one common base, occasionally single
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