Wrinkled Crust

Phlebia radiata – Other

On rotten coniferous and deciduous wood. Autumn, mild winter.

Fruiting bodies spreading, of waxy consistency, soft, hardening with age, from pale pinkish to violet-red. Hymenophore wrinkled, in the form of radially arranged folds, paler and fibrous at the margins. Characteristic features: a round fruiting body of waxy consistency, ochre-pink, spreading radially. Grows in forests and parks on windfalls, more rarely on snags and stumps, in autumn, in mild winters and in spring. Causes a white rot of the wood. A fairly common wood destroyer. Saprotroph.