Birch Polypore

Description:

This specimen is a compartive giant one (4th pic). The fruiting bodies (basidiocarps) are pale, with a smooth greyish-brown top surface, with the underside a creamy white and with hundreds of pores that contain the spores. The fruiting body has a rubbery texture, becoming corky with age

Habitat:

Birches of the northern hemisphere.

Notes:

Wood decayed by the fungus, and cultures of its mycelium, often smell distinctly of green apples