Spring Polypore

Polyporus arcularius

On rotten deciduous, very rarely coniferous wood. Spring, summer.

Fruiting bodies small, annual. Cap 2-5 (6) cm across, raised-flattened, slightly depressed in the middle, yellowish, yellowish-brown, ochre-yellowish, fibrous, finely scaly, matt, tough. Tubes 1-2 pm long, slightly decurrent down the stem. Stem 1-3 (4)x2–5 cm, greyish, yellowish, finely scaly in the upper part, only fibrous lower down. Flesh thin, hard, white, without any particular smell or taste. Characteristic features: stem yellowish, scaly in the upper part. Grows singly or several fruiting bodies together, causes a white rot of the wood. Inedible, uncommon.