A huge compound rosette of soft, fan-shaped caps with pores growing from the base of broadleaf trees and stumps.
Frequent from Summer till late Autumn.
Deciduous woodland, growing at the base or stupms of trees or from buried roots, favours Beech and Oak.
The fruiting bodies upper surface is concentrically zoned light and darl-brown, radially grooved and more or less flat, covered in soft, fine brown scales. The caps arise from short stems, growing from a common, more pallid brown base.
The flesh is white, soft and fibrous.
Pores are more or less rounded, whitish, bruising black.The tubes are also whitish or cream.
Short main stem from which other cap stems grow.
