Milky Postia

Postia lactea – Inedible

On rotten deciduous and coniferous wood. From early spring to late autumn.

Fruiting bodies annual, small, in the form of semicircular caps, usually attached to the substrate by the edge or a short stem, solitary, up to 6 cm across or several fused together, soft, watery, fleshy. Cap surface almost smooth, sometimes as if mealy, white, later becoming cream or yellowish. Flesh watery, white, tasteless, rarely slightly sour. Grows in forests, parks, sometimes gardens, on deciduous, rarely coniferous stumps, snags and windfalls. Causes a white rot of the wood. Very common. Saprotroph.