Conifer Leather Bracket
(Yellow Stereum)
Description
Less than 1cm: Use magnifying glass.
Fruit-body annual, waxy, crust-like, forming strips measuring a few square centimetres to several decimetres in length, 2-4 mm thick, with acute, clearly demarcated margin.
Tubes 1-2 mm long, watery white. Pores 3-5 per mm, circular to angular, white to creamy white, turning red to brown when touched. Smell faint.
Spore-print colour white.
Occurrence
Common on stumps and on the underside of fallen branches of deciduous trees.
Saprophyte.
Related and/or similar species
- Physisporinus vitreus