I-" "Well, I c'n see through a wall when there's a knothole in it," paraphrased Arline calmly.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
When it has spread over a large feeding area it can then grow out through a wound or old knothole and form the bracket fruit body, in case the knothole or wound has not completely healed over so as to imprison the fungus mycelium.
"Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc."
George Francis Atkinson
It was collected near Ithaca, N. Y., in a beech woods along Six-mile creek, on October 24th, 1898, growing from a decayed knothole in the trunk of a living hickory tree, and again in a few days from a decayed stump.
"Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc."
George Francis Atkinson