🇬🇧 sheep polypore - 🇩🇪 Schaf-Porling - 🇪🇪 Harilik lambaseenik - 🇷🇺 Трутовик овечий 9/8/16—9/28/25
🆔 Albatrellus ovinus (Schaeff.) Kotl. & Pouzar
ℹ️ Hymenium: Pores, small and round (≈2–5/mm), white to creamy or pale yellow; pores may become slightly angular near stipe
ℹ️ Cap: Convex to flat or shallowly depressed, surface smooth when young, often developing areolate pattern in maturity; color white to off-white, buff with age
ℹ️ Hymenium Attachment: Decurrent pores (pores extend down the stipe)
ℹ️ Stipe: Central or slightly off-center, color whitish to tan; smooth to faintly velvety; may be stout or thick
⚪ Spore print white
🌲 Ectomycorrhizal with conifers, terrestrial, occurs in clusters, august to october
🍴 Edible (young, properly cooked), slimy or laxative effect reported
📏 Fruit body large, stipe 3–10 cm long, 1–4 cm thick
📐 Cap ~4–20 cm
🔪 Cut surface slowly turns yellowish, then greenish, then turns gray
🧪 Flesh turns dirty golden yellow with KOH application
👃 Indistinct
👅 Mild
🔬 Spores broadly ellipsoid to subglobose, smooth, ~4.0–5.0×2.5–3.5µm, inamyloid, often with a germ pore, no clamp connections
🔤 Fleshy polypore found beneath conifers, with a white-to-buff cracked cap, decurrent white pores, and a stout stipe
🇬🇧 sheep polypore - 🇩🇪 Schaf-Porling - 🇪🇪 Harilik lambaseenik - 🇷🇺 Трутовик овечий