Many-zoned Polypore
Description
Less than 1cm: Use magnifying glass.
Fruit-body annual, fan- to rosette-shaped, usually growing in large groups in rows or imbricate. Cap 2-7 x 1-5 cm, 1-5 mm thick. Upper surface concentrically zoned, undulate, velvety, with black, bluish, brown, reddish and yellowish zones, often with a sheen, with acute, scored, whitish margin.
Tubes 0.5-4 mm long, whitish. Pores 2-4 per mm, circular to angular, white or cream to yellowish ochre. Flesh thin, leathery, tough, whitish.
Spore-print colour white.
Occurrence
Common on stumps, trunks and branches of deciduous trees, occasionally on coniferous trees (Spruce). In the wood in the top right corner of the photograph white rot is visible.
Saprophyte.
Related and/or similar species
- Trametes multicolor
- Trametes hirsuta