Tinder fungus

Description:

Fruit bodies, shown here are perennial and can live up to thirty years. The yearly growth always occurs on the bottom of the fungus, meaning that the lowest layer is the youngest. Mycellium is inside the tree and causes the white rot.

Habitat:

On a dead pine tree on the edge of pine forest, alpine belt.

Notes:

Known also as false tinder fungus, hoof fungus, tinder conk, tinder polypore or ice man fungus.