Weeping Oak Polypore
(Weeping Polypore)
Description
Fruit-body annual, tuberous or cushion- to thick console-shaped, widely attached to the substrate, 10-25 x 6-15 cm. Upper surface tubercular-furrowed, matt, fine felted, cream to orange brown or tobacco-brown, with a blunt rim.
Tubes 5-20 mm long, red-brown. Pores 3-4 per mm, grey-white to yellow-brown.
Spore-print colour brown. Young fruit-bodies often milk thick red-brown drops (guttation).
Occurrence
On trunks and at the base of old Oaks (or Sweet chestnut) in parks, lanes and estates on clayey soils.
Parasitic.