Peeling Oysterling

Crepidotus mollis

Forests, parks, gardens. From spring to late autumn.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap 3–5 (7–9) cm across, horse-hoof-shaped when young, roundly or broadly fan-shaped when mature, the margin bent downwards, dirty grey, greyish-brownish, yellowish-brownish, the cuticle tough, elastic. There is no stem, or only an inconspicuous rudimentary remnant; attached to the substrate by the side. Flesh thick, soft, elastic, not bitter, the smell not strong. Characteristic features: the largest fungus of this genus, growing in large colonies on rotten wood. Appears on dead branches, windfalls and stumps of deciduous trees, very rarely singly, usually in colonies. Inedible, very common. A wood saprotroph, a sanitiser.