A large annual bracket fungus that is velvety and reddish-ochre or brown found often solitary or in small tiers on tree trunks or felled timber, mainly Oak and Beech.
Rare, throughout the year but sporulating in Autumn.
Parasitic on tree trunks and felled timber of bradleaf trees, preferring Oak and Beech.
The fruitbody's felty or downy upper surface is initially ochre-brown, then reddish or umber-brown, finally black in old specimens, undulating, sessile , bristly with age.
Thick, brown, soft and spongy and tough when dry.
Pores initially pale ochraceous, yellowish-brown with age, angular, sometimes with a greenish tinge.
Inedible.
