Description
Fruit-body consisting of irregularly semicircular to shell-shaped caps, often imbricate, growing laterally from a bracket-like core. Cap 3-8 cm wide, wavily curved, granular-warty, whitish to cream or ochre, later orange-brown, often with incurved margin. Spines 1-1.5 cm long, awl-shaped, soft, white to cream. Smell pleasant.
Spore-print colour white.
Occurrence
On wounds on trunks and on living and dead trunks and thick branches of old deciduous trees (Beech) in parks and open woodland.
Saprophyte. (Parasitic?)
Status
Vulnerable (Red Data List, ed. 1)