Description
Less than 1cm: Use magnifying glass.
Fruit-body annual, fan- to rosette-shaped. Cap 3-10 x 2-6, 5-10 mm thick. Upper surface concentrically zoned, bristly to hairy-felted, with whitish, cream, ochre-yellow and yellow-brown zones, often green due to algal growth, with acute, scored-ciliate margin.
Tubes 1-4 mm long, whitish to cream. Pores 2-4 per mm, whitish or cream to brownish with greyish tinge. Flesh corky, elastic, tough, whitish to cream.
Spore-print colour white.
Occurrence
Common on stumps, trunks and branches of deciduous trees (Birch, Alder, Beech), and fence posts.
Saprophyte. (Parasitic?)
Related and/or similar species
- Trametes versicolor
- Trametes multicolor
- Trametes pubescens