13/Sep/2026, 1:33 PM
Vabaõhukooli tee, Tallinn, Harju, Eesti
Deciduous forest, near river, on dead dried hardwood branch
59°27'52.7"N 24°52'57.3"E
🌡️ 16°C 🌦️ Sprinkles, scattered clouds 💨 Wind 230° SW->NE, 15 km/h
Original Instagram postTrametes ochracea
Ochre Bracket
- Scientific identification
- Trametes ochracea (Pers.) Gilb. & Ryvarden
- Family
- Polyporaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Trametes
Names across languages
- English: Ochre Bracket
- German: Ockerfarbene Tramete
- Finnish: Pinovyökääpä
- Estonian: Vööt-tagel
- Russian: Траметес охряный
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2026-09-13.
Hymenium
Pores round to slightly angular, cream to pale ochre; ~3–4 per mm
Cap
Semicircular to shell-shaped, often overlapping in tiers; concentrically zoned ochre, buff, orange-brown to grey-brown; alternating finely tomentose, velvety and smoother zones; margin thin and paler
Hymenium Attachment
Pore surface covers the underside of the bracket
Stipe
Absent; broadly attached and sessile
Spore print
Spore print white
Ecology
Saprobic, causing white rot on dead hardwood, especially beech and oak; fallen trunks, branches, stumps and standing dead wood; overlapping clusters; annual but persistent, visible year-round
Ecology
Inedible; tough, leathery and corky
Fruit body
Fruit body small to medium; often forming much larger overlapping masses
Dimensions
Cap width ~1.5–5(–6) cm
Flesh
White to cream, tough-fibrous and corky, unchanging when cut
Chemical reactions
No macroscopic reagents reaction
Odour
Indistinct
Taste
Indistinct
Microscopy
Spores cylindrical to slightly curved/allantoid, smooth, hyaline, inamyloid, ~5.5–8 × 2–3 µm; basidia 4-spored; cystidia absent
Overview
Ochre-zoned hardwood bracket with broad hairy bands and cream pores
1987). N. Amer. Polyp., Vol. 2 Megasporoporia - Wrightoporia (Oslo): 752.
Field encounters
09/Sep/24, 3:17 PM
Väike-Rõsna, Võrumaa, Estonia
Birch-alder-aspen forest (birch-alder-aspen-oak), on decayed decidious wood stump
57°59'17.7"N 27°37'42.1"E
🔆 Mild overcast, partial forest shade
Original Instagram postSource hashtags
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