Anise Mazegill
Description
Fruit-body perennial, bulbous to bracket-like or cushion-shaped, corky, tough, Ø 8-20 cm. Upper surface lumpy-undulating, matt, velvety to felty, brown-orange or cinnamon-brown to rusty- or black-brown, marginal zone yellowish- to pale brown, becoming red- brown when bruised. Tubes in layers, 0,5-1 cm. Pores circular or angular to elongated, 1-2 per mm, yellow to greyish brown.
Taste mild, bitter. Smell spicy, fennel-, anise- or coriander-like.
Spore-print colour white.
Occurrence
On mouldered stumps and trunks of spruces in woods on poor sandy soil.
Saprophyte.