Description
Fruit-body annual, fan- to rosette-shaped in stemmed tufts, Ø 8-20 cm with thin, undulate margin. Cap 3-9 cm long, 5-30 mm thick. Upper surface finely velvety-felted, whitish or ochre- to red-brownish.
Tubes 2-5 mm long, white. Pores 1-3 per mm, irregularly reticular to labyrinthine, whitish, staining pink-reddish brown on bruising.
Stem usually sunk into the soil, 4-7 x 2-3 cm, covered with soil. Flesh soft to hard, white.
Occasionally together with the anamorphous Ceriomyces terrestris in the form of white bulbs with red guttation drops (336C.jpg).
Spore-print colour white.
Occurrence
Fairly common on stumps or apparently on the soil on tree roots and buried wood of (living) deciduous trees (Poplar, Beech, Oak). Summer to autumn.
Parasitic, (Saprophyte).