🇬🇧 smoky bracket - 🇩🇪 Angebrannter Rauchporling - 🇪🇪 Harilik suitsik

🇬🇧 smoky bracket - 🇩🇪 Angebrannter Rauchporling - 🇪🇪 Harilik suitsik - 🇷🇺 Бьеркандера опалённая 9/14/20—10/18/25

🆔 Bjerkandera adusta (Willd.) P.Karst.
ℹ️ Hymenium: Pores, small and angular (≈5–7 / mm), initially greyish, aging to dark grey or black, forming the undersurface of the bracket
ℹ️ Cap: Bracket- or shelf-like, sometimes effused-reflexed, upper surface velvety, pale buff, tan to greyish, often zoned, margin whitish when young
❌ Hymenium Attachment: Pores
⚪ Spore print white
🍂🪵 Saprobic (weakly parasitic) on dead hardwoods, causing white-rot of fallen logs, stumps, autumn to winter (year-round)
🪵 Inedible - tough, leathery
📏 Fruit body medium
📐 Bracket width 2–10 cm, 2–6 mm thick
🔪 Flesh whitish to buff, leathery-corky, no color change
🧪 KOH reaction on surface negative
👃 Faint fungal odour
👅 Woody
🔬 Spores roughly ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, ~4–6×2.5–3.5 µm, clamp-connections, no cystidia
🔤 Bracket fungus, forms thin, overlapping shelves or flattened crusts on the dead wood of hardwood trees