Blushing Bracket

Daedaleopsis confragosa

On rotten deciduous (willow, birch) wood. Spring, summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies large, annual, 5-15 cm across, in the form of semicircular, sometimes round, fan-shaped caps attached to the substrate by the side, solitary or fused in overlapping tiers, radially wrinkled, with concentric zones, whitish, whitish-brownish, greyish-brownish.

Tubes 1-6 mm long, pores round or labyrinthine, whitish-yellowish, pale brownish-brown, often covered with a greyish bloom which takes on a pink tinge when pressed, later turning brown. Flesh yellowish, brownish, corky.

Grows in forests, parks and gardens only on dead deciduous trees, snags, stumps and branches, most widespread on willow. Causes a white rot of the wood. An active saprotroph.