Cinnabar-red polypore.

Description:

Fruiting body: 2-12 cm across, 2-8 cm wide, 0.5-2.0 cm thick, kidney or fan-shaped; leathery, becoming corky when dried; upper surface covered in fine soft hairs when young, giving them a pruinose appearance; later smooth and wrinkled, cinnabar -red or orange-red, color decreasing in intensity with age. Tubes: 2-6 mm long, cinnabar red. Pores: 2-4 per mm, round or angular, cinnabar-red. Spores: white, oblong-ellipsoid, non-amyloid, 4.5-6 x 2-3 µm. Spore print: white.

Habitat:

lives on dead deciduous trees, especially cherry, beech and birch.

Notes:

it in my garden , on the stub of the dead tree