Trametes velutina

Names across languages

From the latest record: 2024-08-19.

Pores, small and round (4–6 per mm), white to cream when young, becoming yellowish with age

Shelflike, semicircular to fan-shaped, velvety to tomentose surface when young, often zoned, margin often wavy

Poroid

Lacking, fruiting body is attached laterally to the substrate

Spore print white to pale cream

Saprobic, grows on decaying hardwoods, often found on logs, stumps, or fallen branches, year-round

Inedible due to tough, woody texture

Fruit body medium-sized, caps measure 5–15 cm wide and 1–3 cm thick

Yellowish to reddish-brown KOH on cap surface

Odour fishy, like smoked herring

Taste indistinct

Spores cylindrical to slightly curved, smooth, hyaline in KOH, 5–7 x 2–3 µm, inamyloid, basidia 4-sterigmate

Medium-sized shelf fungus with a velvety cap surface and a poroid hymenium

1965). Bull. N.Z. Dept. Sci. Industr. Res. 164: 173.

Suurupi looduskaitseala, Harjumaa, Estonia

Mixed forest, on fallen birch branch

59°27'05.6"N 24°21'18.9"E

🔆 Clear sky, mixed forest shade