oligoporus leucospongia

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   a pore fungus with a whitish cottony soft cap found on conifer logs in forests at high elevation in the western United States and adjacent Canada

   Broaderpolypore

   Part ofPolyporaceae

Questions about oligoporus leucospongia

What does oligoporus leucospongia mean?

oligoporus leucospongia means "a pore fungus with a whitish cottony soft cap found on conifer logs in forests at high elevation in the western United States and adjacent Canada".

Is oligoporus leucospongia a common word?

oligoporus leucospongia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.