🇬🇧 rusty porecrust - 🇩🇪 Rostbrauner Feuerschwamm - 🇪🇪 Roostepruun taelik - 🇷🇺 Фускопория ржавая 9/27/25
🆔 Fuscoporia ferruginosa (Schrad.) Murrill
ℹ️ Hymenium: Pores, small (often ~4–7 per mm), angular to hexagonal, initially pale but turning rusty-brown to cinnamon as spores mature
ℹ️ Cap: Bracket or crust form (resupinate or effused-reflexed), surface smooth to slightly tomentose, cinnamon to rusty brown, zonate in places
ℹ️ Hymenium Attachment: Poroid (underside of bracket), sometimes flush with substrate (crust)
❌ Stipe: Absent (fungus grows directly attached to wood substrate)
⚪ Spore print pale, slightly pinkish to white
🍂🪵 Saprotrophic (and wood-decay) fungus, causes white rot on dead hardwoods, occurs on branches, stumps, logs, often in shaded, moist environments
🪵 Inedible (hard, woody, no flesh)
📏 Fruit body size medium to large, thickness up to ~1.5 cm
📐 Cap / bracket ~5–15 cm across
🧪 Not well documented
👃 Faint, mild
👅 Woody, tough
🔬 Spores globose to subglobose, smooth, hyaline, non-amyloid; Hyphal system: dimitic (generative + skeletal); Hymenial setae: dark brown setae often present in pore surface
🔤 Medium-to-large, rusty brown porecrust fungus found on dead hardwood
🇬🇧 rusty porecrust - 🇩🇪 Rostbrauner Feuerschwamm - 🇪🇪 Roostepruun taelik - 🇷🇺 Фускопория ржавая