18/Oct/25, 2:08 PM
Kadrioru park, Tallinn, Harjumaa, Eesti
Urban park, on old hardwood decaying stump wood
59°26'23.1"N 24°47'46.2"E
🌡️ 6°C ⛅ Passing clouds 💨 Wind 70° ENE->WSW, 9 km/h
Original Instagram postBjerkandera fumosa
big smoky bracket
- Scientific identification
- Bjerkandera fumosa (Pers.) P.Karst.
- Family
- Phanerochaetaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Bjerkandera
Names across languages
- English: big smoky bracket
- German: Graugelber Rauchporling
- Finnish: Savukääpä
- Estonian: Pruun suitsik
- Russian: Бьеркандера дымчатая
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2025-10-18.
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
Bracket
Sessile, often effused-reflexed, buff to pale ochre or smoky-buff above, surface finely tomentose, zoned, margin thin
Hymenium Attachment
Pores
Stipe
Absent
Spore print
Spore print white
Ecology
Saprobic, causing white rot in hardwoods, dead or decaying broadleaf wood (logs, stump), year-round
Ecology
Inedible - tough, leathery
Fruit body
Fruit body size medium
Dimensions
Bracket width ~5–25 cm, ~5–10 mm thick
Flesh
Flesh buff to pale, tough, cork-like
Chemical reactions
KOH negative
Odour
Faint anise-like
Taste
Bland to bitter
Microscopy
Spores smooth, short-cylindrical to ellipsoid, hyaline, ~5.5–7×2.5–3.5 µm, basidia club-shaped, ~20–22 µm long
Overview
Wood-decaying bracket fungus, forming thin but firm shelf-like fruit bodies on dead hardwood
1879). Meddn Soc. Fauna Flora Fenn. 5: 38.
Field encounters
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