Smoky Bracket
Bjerkandera adusta
Cap Diameter (mm): 
20-40mm
Cap or Bracket Thickness (mm): 
3-6mm
 
Description: 

A small, greyish white bracket often found in dense, overlapping tiers on deciduous wood.

Cap: 

The upper bracket is grey-brown when young with a white margin, darker with age,irregular or lumpy, finely downy then smooth with an undulating margin.

Flesh: 

The flesh can be leathery or rubbery and whitish.

Gills: 

Pores are subcircular or angular, very small, smoke-grey in colour, darkening with age. Tubes are grey in colour.

Distribution: 

Common throughout the year.

Habitat: 

Broadleaf woodland.

Additional Notes: 

Inedible.