Ischnoderma benzoinum

benzoin bracket

Names across languages

From the latest record: 2024-10-12.

Pores, creamy, bruising brown, in maturity dark brown and hard, 3–4 per mm, tubes 2–4 mm deep.

Semicircular to fan-shaped, dark brown to reddish-brown, velvety when young, becoming smooth and darker with age, margin paler and wavy

N/A (Polypore with a pore surface)

Absent or rudimentary, directly attached to wood

Spore print white

Saprobic, growing on dead coniferous wood, particularly spruce and fir, causing white rot, annual, late summer to autumn

Inedible due to tough structure, reported edible at a young age

Fruit body medium to large

Cap 4–15 cm across, 4–6 cm deep

KOH black on cap surface and flesh

Odour pleasant, reminiscent of anise or vanilla when fresh

Spores allantoid, smooth, 5–7 x 1–2 µm, hyaline in KOH, inamyloid, cystidia not found

Medium to large polypore with a dark brown, velvety cap

1881). Acta Soc. Fauna Flora Fenn. 2(no. 1): 32 (’1881-1885′).

Soodla jõgi, Harjumaa, Estonia

Spruce-pine-juniper wooded heath, on old spruce stump

59°23'11.1"N 25°23'38.7"E

🔆 Occasional sun, partly cloudy, open spot