21 February 2026 Medstead, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Synonymns Phellinus tuberculosus Fruiting Body Bracket shaped, laterally attached, upper surface finely felty to smooth, greyish brown, brown to blackish, underside pale brown to cinnamon brown, 4 to 6 pores per mm, to about 10 cm across Flesh Dark reddish brown, fibrous, tough Smell Indistinct Season All year Distribution Infrequent Habitat On living and dead wood, favouring Prunus species especially Prunus spinosa (blackthorn or sloe) but also hawthorn, Malus (apple) and Sorbus species Spore Print Cream Microscopic Features Spores subglobose to ovoid (4-5) x (3-4.5) µm2. Basidia clavate, four spored. Hyphal system dimitic, clamps not present. Hymenial setae brown, thick walled, shaped like a spear head. Edibility Inedible 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a 100X immerson objective. 21 February 2026 Medstead, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Congo solution red viewed with a 100X immerson objective. 21 February 2026 Medstead, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
On hawthorn. 22 February 2015 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Congo red solution viewed with a 100X immerson objective. 22 February 2015 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |