On Beech, 25 August 2008 West Sussex. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Bracket shaped, laterally attached to the substrate, sometimes several brackets fused together, pale brown to ochraceous brown, margin often exuding copious quantities of red fluid, underside whitish, 3 to 5 pores per mm, to about 60 cm wide Flesh Reddish brown, tough Smell Unpleasant Taste Acidic Season All year Distribution Frequent Habitat On living deciduous trees, favouring oak, but also on beech, usually found at the base of the tree Spore Print White to yellow Microscopic Features Spores sub-spherical, smooth (6-8.5) x (5.5-6.5) µm2 Edibility Inedible 
On Beech, 30 August 2008 West Sussex. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
On Beech, 25 August 2008 West Sussex. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
10 August 2008 West Sussex. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
10 August 2008 West Sussex. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |