Polypore Mushroom

Description:

It is a woody, pileate fruiting body with pores lined with basidia on its underside. As in other polypores, the fruiting body is perennial with a new layer of pores produced each year on the bottom of the old pores. The pores are whitish when young and become somewhat brownish in age. Cap is hoof-shaped or triangular, hard and tough texture, up to 30-40 x 25 x 10 cm. Surface is more or less smooth, at first orange-yellow with a white margin, later dark reddish to brown and then frequently with orange margin. Pore surface is pale yellow to leather-brown, the varnished cap surface that is usually red to reddish brown with a white or yellow margin

Habitat:

This fungi is normally found on dead conifers, but can also be observed growing on large stem wounds, broken tops, and dead tissue of live trees. In mature forests.

Notes:

This mushroom is inedible due to its woody texture, but it is useful as tinder.