🇬🇧 big smoky bracket - 🇩🇪 Graugelber Rauchporling - 🇪🇪 Pruun suitsik

🇬🇧 big smoky bracket - 🇩🇪 Graugelber Rauchporling - 🇪🇪 Pruun suitsik - 🇷🇺 Бьеркандера дымчатая 10/18/25

🆔 Bjerkandera fumosa (Pers.) P.Karst.
ℹ️ Hymenium: Pores, angular to slightly irregular, ≈2–5/mm, color buff to pale smoky-gray when young, later darker, surface clearly separated from tissue by a darker line
ℹ️ Bracket: Sessile, often effused-reflexed, buff to pale ochre or smoky-buff above, surface finely tomentose, zoned, margin thin
❌ Hymenium Attachment: Pores
⚪ Spore print white
🍂🪵 Saprobic, causing white rot in hardwoods, dead or decaying broadleaf wood (logs, stump), year-round
🪵 Inedible - tough, leathery
📏 Fruit body size medium
📐 Bracket width ~5–25 cm, ~5–10 mm thick
🔪 Flesh buff to pale, tough, cork-like
🧪 KOH negative
👃 Faint anise-like
👅 Bland to bitter
🔬 Spores smooth, short-cylindrical to ellipsoid, hyaline, ~5.5–7×2.5–3.5 µm, basidia club-shaped, ~20–22 µm long
🔤 Wood-decaying bracket fungus, forming thin but firm shelf-like fruit bodies on dead hardwood