Artist's Bracket
Scientific Name:
Ganoderma applanatum
Synonyms:
More or less flat, semi-circular, margin acute, often pallid, grey-brown, umber or cocoa-coloured. hard and corky glabrous, upper surface knobbly, concentrically grooved, covered with a hard wrinkled crust. flesh cinnamon-brown , thinner that the tube layer, Tubes 7-25mm long in each annual layer, brown. Pores circular white bruising brown. Spores ovate-elliptical, truncate at one end. brown-ornamented. Tastes bitter , smells mushroomy.
Confusion Species:
Height:
Cap Diameter (mm):
Cap or Bracket Thickness (mm):
100-600
Stem Height (mm):
Stem Diameter (mm):
20-80
Distribution:
Habitat:
Found on the trunks of deciduous trees, especially beech, occasionally on pine.
Micro Habitat:
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Additional Notes:
Not Edible. A useful means of identification is to scratch the white surface (underneath) with something pointed, or a finger nail, and the resulting mark will turn brown. Notes: Occasional but widespread. Much less frequent than G. australe with which it has been much confused. Basidiomes may be attacked by a dipteran, Agathomyia wankowiczii, the larvae of which induce large nipple-like galls on the pore surface.