Purplepore Bracket

Trichaptum abietinum

On dead coniferous, more rarely deciduous wood. Spring, summer, autumn (winter).

Fruiting bodies annual, small, 1-4 cm across, densely arranged in overlapping tiers, attached to the substrate by the edge, sometimes almost fully attached with only the margins raised from the substrate, or completely attached (resupinate), spreading; surface concentrically furrowed, covered with soft hairs, whitish, grey, yellowish, margins violet. Hymenophore whitish, later violet, violet-purple, cocoa-coloured, even brown. Tubes short (up to 2 mm), with toothed edges, fragile. Flesh very thin, leathery. Grows in forests and parks on fallen spruce and pine trunks, sometimes on stumps and snags, also occurring on aspens, hazels, birches and alders. Causes a fibrous white rot of the wood. Very common. An active saprotroph.