Waxy-pore Fungus
Description
Fruit-body annual, crust-like to fan-shaped, often growing in interconnected rows or roof-tile fashion. Cap 1-3 x 0.5-2 cm, 3-6 mm thick. Upper surface felted, not or weakly zoned, whitish to grey-ochre-coloured, with a shaper white sterile rim.
Tubes 0.5-1 mm long, gelatinous. Pores 4-6 per mm, rounded to angular, dirty pink to red-brown. Flesh stringy-felted, white.
Spore-print colour white.
Occurrence
On trunks and stubs of Birch in deciduous forests, especially in the dunes. Often on or beside fruit-bodies of Inonotus obliquus.
Saprophyte.