04/Jul/2026, 2:56 PM
Kõrveküla, Lääne-Viru, Eesti
Conifer dominant forest, on fallen spruce trunk wood
59°14'11.6"N 25°39'14.6"E
🌡️ 19°C 🌥️ Passing clouds 💨 Wind 10° N->S, 7 km/h
Original Instagram postFomitopsis pinicola
red-belted conk
- Scientific identification
- Fomitopsis pinicola (Sw.) P.Karst.
- Family
- Fomitopsidaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Fomitopsis
Names across languages
- English: red-belted conk
- German: Rotrandige Baumschwamm
- Finnish: Kantokääpä
- Estonian: Kännupess
- Russian: Фомитопсис окаймлённый
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2026-07-04.
Hymenium
Pores round, whitish to pale yellowish, not strongly bruising; usually ~3–4 pores per mm, with distinct annual tube layers
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
Hymenium Attachment
N/A
Stipe
N/A
Spore print
Spore print pale yellow
Ecology
Saprobic, sometimes weakly parasitic, causing brown cubical rot on dead or living conifers and hardwoods; perennial, year-round
Ecology
Woody and inedible
Fruit body
Fruit body large, up to ~15 cm thick
Dimensions
Cap ∅ up to ~25–30 cm
Flesh
Flesh whitish to cream, leathery to woody, unchanging when cut
Chemical reactions
KOH flesh turns red to reddish-brown
Odour
Fagrant, sour when fresh
Taste
Indistinct to slightly bitter
Microscopy
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
Overview
Tough perennial red-belted bracket with pale pores, varnished orange-red marginal zones
1881). Meddn Soc. Fauna Flora Fenn. 6: 9.
Field encounters
29/Sep/24, 2:08 PM
Raudoja, Harjumaa, Estonia
Pine-spruce-birch forest, on spruce stump
59°23'15.9"N 25°24'05.2"E
🔆 Raining, storm clouds with sun rays, open spot
Original Instagram post03/Aug/23, 6:24 PM
Treppoja Cascade, Kloogaranna, Harjumaa, Estonia
In mixed forest, on dead pine trunk in ground
59°21'02.7"N 24°15'57.6"E
🔆 Forest shade, with late evening sun
Original Instagram post28/07/23, 7:51 PM
Tädu terviserada, Lubja, Harjumaa
In pine (Pinus sylvestris) forest, on dead pine trunk
59°31'08.3"N 24°54'06.4"E (59.518970, 24.901774)
🔆 Forest shade, with late evening partial sun
Original Instagram postSource hashtags
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