Species details
Cinnamon bracket
Hapalopilus rutilans
Poisonous
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Description
A soft cinnamon to pale-orange bracket fungus. It is poisonous and must not be eaten.
Identification features
The fruitbody is about 2.5–12 cm wide, irregularly semicircular or kidney-shaped, cinnamon to pale orange and relatively soft when moist. The underside has small round pores.
Identification checklist
Check the soft cinnamon to orange bracket and finely porous underside. Do not taste because the species is poisonous.
Detailed features
- Hymenophore
- The underside has small round pores.
Habitat
Grows singly or in groups on decaying wood and branches, mainly from summer to late autumn.
Fruiting period
July, August, September, October, November
Ecology
- Substrate
- Dead wood
- Notes
- Grows singly or in groups on decaying wood and branches, mainly from summer to late autumn.
How to separate similar species
Several brownish wood polypores can look similar. Expert confirmation is needed when identification is uncertain.
Similar species
- Hapalopilus species
- Ischnoderma species
- Bjerkandera species