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Trichaptum abietinum
Cap 1-3 cm across, 0.5–2cm wide, in overlapping rows or shelves; upper surface concentrically grooved, greyish, often with a greenish tint due to the growth of algae amongst the layer of woolly hairs covering the surface, margin pinkish and undulate. Flesh pale brownish or purplish. Tubes 0.3–0.7mm long, lilac when fresh drying reddish-brown. Pores 3–4 per mm, circular or angular becoming irregularly toothed, bright violet especially towards the margin of the cap but paling and brownish with age. Not edible. Found In Europe and north America.
Habitat on dead fallen coniferous trunks and stumps. Spotted on a fallen pine tree trunk
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