18/Oct/25, 2:06 PM
Kadrioru park, Tallinn, Harjumaa, Eesti
Urban park, on old hardwood decaying stump wood
59°26'22.7"N 24°47'46.5"E
🌡️ 6°C ⛅ Passing clouds 💨 Wind 70° ENE->WSW, 9 km/h
Original Instagram postBjerkandera adusta
smoky bracket
- Scientific identification
- Bjerkandera adusta (Willd.) P.Karst.
- Family
- Phanerochaetaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Bjerkandera
Names across languages
- English: smoky bracket
- German: Angebrannter Rauchporling
- Finnish: Tuhkakääpä
- Estonian: Harilik suitsik
- Russian: Бьеркандера опалённая
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2025-10-18.
Hymenium
Pores, small and angular (≈5–7 / mm), initially greyish, aging to dark grey or black, forming the undersurface of the bracket
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
Stipe
Absent
Spore print
Spore print white
Ecology
Saprobic (weakly parasitic) on dead hardwoods, causing white-rot of fallen logs, stumps, autumn to winter (year-round)
Ecology
Inedible - tough, leathery
Fruit body
Fruit body medium
Dimensions
Bracket width 2–10 cm, 2–6 mm thick
Flesh
Flesh whitish to buff, leathery-corky, no color change
Chemical reactions
KOH reaction on surface negative
Odour
Faint fungal odour
Taste
Woody
Microscopy
Spores roughly ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, ~4–6×2.5–3.5 µm, clamp-connections, no cystidia
Overview
Bracket fungus, forms thin, overlapping shelves or flattened crusts on the dead wood of hardwood trees
1879). Meddn Soc. Fauna Flora Fenn. 5: 38.
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Kullamaa Püha Nikolause kirik, Läänemaa, Estonia
Mawned grass field, old dead tree stump in ground
58°41'27.3"N 23°50'11.4"E
🔆 Bright midday sun
Original Instagram postSource hashtags
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