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, 3-8 mm thick, clearly demarcated margin, occasionally with brown rhizomorphs.
Tubes 2-4 mm long, watery white. Pores 3-6 per mm, circular, glassy creamy white to ochrous, turning faintly brownish when touched. Smell unpleasant.
Spore-print colour white.
Occurrence
Not uncommon on stumps of deciduous trees (Beech, Birch), occasionally spreading onto the forest floor.
Saprophyte.
Related and/or similar species
- Physisporinus sanguinolentus
- Rigidoporus ulmarius – parasitic on the stem base and roots of Elm.