Description
Fruit-body annual, bulbous to bracket-like, flesh thick, Ø 5-20 cm. Upper surface coarse-felty, white or cream-coloured, then yellowish grey to olive-brown. Tubes 0,5-1 cm, white, then cream to yellow-ochre. Pores circular, 2-4 per mm, whitish to cream. Flesh young juicy, white.
Taste mild. Smell faintly of aniseed.
Spore-print colour white.
Occurrence
On trunks of old, weakened broad-leaved trees (Horse Chestnut, Elm, Poplar) in roadsides and parks.
Parasitic.