Description
Fruit-body perennial, bracket-like. Cap 15-25 x 10-15 cm, 8-15 cm thick. Upper surface smooth, shiny, with impressible crust, copper-red-brown to violet-brown or purple-brown, with a yellow, waxy resinous layer under the crust, which is inflammable if you hold a lighted match to it, with obtuse, yellow-orange growth zone.
Tubes each layer 10-15mm long, red-brown. Pores 4-5 mm, circular, whitish to yellowish. Flesh corky, tough, red-brown. Smell pleasant.
Spore-print colour brown.
Occurrence
On trunks and stumps of old deciduous trees (Beech, Oak) in parks and on country estates on clay.
Parasitic.
Related and/or similar species
- Ganoderma resinaceum