🇬🇧 birch mazegill - 🇩🇪 Birken-Blättling - 🇪🇪 Kasepehik

🇬🇧 birch mazegill - 🇩🇪 Birken-Blättling - 🇪🇪 Kasepehik - 🇷🇺 Ленцитес берёзовый 10/10-18/25

🆔 Lenzites betulinus (L.) Fr.
ℹ️ Hymenium: Gills (true lamellae, broad and tough), white or cream when young, later a pale buff
ℹ️ Cap: Bracket- or shelf-shaped (sometimes semicircular or fan-shaped), attached laterally to wood, surface zoned in concentric rings of whitish, greyish-buff, brown tones, velvety/tomentose
ℹ️ Hymenium Attachment: N/A (the gills are part of the underside of the bracket)
ℹ️ Stipe: Absent — fruit body is sessile on wood
⚪ Spore print white
🌳🪵 Saprobic causing white-rot on dead or dying hardwood, especially birch, beech and other broadleaves, all year round
🪵 Inedible - tough and corky
📏 Fruit body size medium
📐 Cap width up to ~10 cm or more, 2 cm thick
🔪 Flesh white, corky, unchanging when cut
🧪 KOH on surface or flesh negative to weak yellow
👃 Faint, indistinct
👅 Tough, corky
🔬 Spores cylindrical to allantoid, smooth, hyaline, ~5–6×1.5–2.5 µm, hyphal system monomitic/trimitic with clamp connections
🔤 Polypore on hardwoods, easily recognised by its bracket form and under-surface of true gills