Yellow-red Gill Bracket
Description
Fruit-body annual to perennial, bracket-like or fan- to shell-shaped, often with caps fusing or growing in rosettes, in rows or imbricate, 6-20 x 2-8 cm, 6-10 mm thick. Upper surface concentrically zoned, bristly-hairy to smooth, tobacco-brown or yellow-brown to red-brown or dark-brown, with white to yellow-brown marginal zone. Pores gill-like, 5-20 per cm, 4-10 mm wide, often strongly decurrent on the substrate, creamy ochre to grey-brown. Flesh thin, tough, tobacco-brown.
Spore-print colour white.
Occurrence
Fairly common on trunks and stumps of coniferous trees in woods and on fence posts and processed wood of coniferous trees in buildings.
Saprophyte.