Daedaleopsis confragosa

10 August 2008 West Sussex. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin

Species

Fruiting Body

Bracket shaped, broadly attached to the substrate, upper surface smooth to finely velvety, zoned, yellow brown to reddish brown, under surface whitish, bruising reddish, pores maze like, to about 20 cm across

Flesh

White then brown with age

Smell

Indistinct

Taste

Indistinct or bitter

Season

All year

Distribution

Very common

Habitat

On dead wood from deciduous trees

Spore Print

White

Microscopic Features

Spores cylindrical (6-7.5) x (2-3) µm²

Edibility

Inedible