10 August 2008 West Sussex. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Bracket shaped, broadly attached to the substrate, upper surface smooth to finely velvety, zoned, yellow brown to reddish brown, under surface whitish, bruising reddish, pores maze like, to about 20 cm across Flesh White then brown with age Smell Indistinct Taste Indistinct or bitter Season All year Distribution Very common Habitat On dead wood from deciduous trees Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores cylindrical (6-7.5) x (2-3) µm2 Edibility Inedible |