🇺🇸 red-belted conk - 🇩🇪 Rotrandige Baumschwamm - 🇪🇪 Kännupess - 🇷🇺 Фомитопсис окаймлённый 12/31/08—7/4/26
🆔 Fomitopsis pinicola (Sw.) P.Karst.
ℹ️ Hymenium: Pores round, whitish to pale yellowish, not strongly bruising; usually ~3–4 pores per mm, with distinct annual tube layers
ℹ️ Cap: Perennial bracket or hoof-shaped conk; hard, woody, semicircular to fan-shaped; zoned dark blackish near attachment, with orange-red varnished bands and a thick pale growing margin
🟡⚪ Spore print pale yellow
🪵🪱 Saprobic, sometimes weakly parasitic, causing brown cubical rot on dead or living conifers and hardwoods; perennial, year-round
🪵😑 Woody and inedible
📏 Fruit body large, up to ~15 cm thick
📐 Cap ∅ up to ~25–30 cm
🔪 Flesh whitish to cream, leathery to woody, unchanging when cut
🧪 KOH flesh turns red to reddish-brown
👃 Fagrant, sour when fresh
👅 Indistinct to slightly bitter
🔬 Spores subellipsoid to oval, smooth, hyaline in KOH, inamyloid, ~6–9 × 3–4.5 µm; basidia 4-sterigmate; cystidia absent; hyphal system trimitic with clamped generative hyphae, skeletal hyphae and binding hyphae
🔤 Tough perennial red-belted bracket with pale pores, varnished orange-red marginal zones
🇺🇸 red-belted conk - 🇩🇪 Rotrandige Baumschwamm - 🇪🇪 Kännupess - 🇷🇺 Фомитопсис окаймлённый