Rosy Conk

Fomitopsis rosea

Forests, parks, most often spruce forests. Spring, summer, autumn (winter).

Fruiting bodies perennial, attached to the substrate by the side singly or several together. Usually hoof-shaped, 3–8 cm across. Surface of young ones uneven, wrinkled, finely shaggy, later smooth, bare, covered with a blackish crust, blackish-pink, greyish-brown, brownish-black, the margins pointed, pink. Hymenophore pink, greyish-pink, brownish-brown. Flesh woody, hard. Grows in damp coniferous and deciduous forests on spruce windfalls and snags, also occurring on deciduous trees. In Lithuania found only on spruce. Causes a brown rot of the wood, very rare. A saprotroph of spruce.