Species details
Bitter bracket
Amaropostia stiptica
Inedible
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Description
A white to yellowish-white soft cheese-like bracket on conifer wood with a strongly bitter or astringent taste.
Identification features
Fruitbody 5–12 cm long, semicircular to kidney-shaped and white to yellowish. Flesh is soft and cheese-like, with small pale pores beneath.
Identification checklist
Check the white soft cheese-like texture and growth on conifer wood. Bitterness is characteristic, but tasting is unnecessary.
Detailed features
- Hymenophore
- Flesh is soft and cheese-like, with small pale pores beneath.
- Flesh
- Flesh is soft and cheese-like, with small pale pores beneath.
Habitat
Grows mainly in autumn on conifer stumps and trunks, usually singly or in small groups.
Fruiting period
September, October, November
Ecology
- Substrate
- Stumps
- Notes
- Grows mainly in autumn on conifer stumps and trunks, usually singly or in small groups.
How to separate similar species
Other white soft-fleshed polypores are often mild and may show different bruising reactions.
Similar species
- Postia species
- Guttation polypore (Calcipostia guttulata)
- Tyromyces species