Species details
Mossy maze polypore
Cerrena unicolor
Inedible
Photo: Keith Seifert · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Photo source · License
Description
A grey to ash-zoned tough bracket on hardwood with an irregular maze-like to toothed fertile surface.
Identification features
Fruitbodies are bracket-shaped, thin to moderately thick, grey-brown and often concentrically zoned. The underside is initially porous, later the pores become torn and maze-like.
Identification checklist
Check the ash-grey zoned cap and irregularly porous to maze-like underside.
Detailed features
- Hymenophore
- The underside is initially porous, later the pores become torn and maze-like.
Habitat
Grows on dead and damaged hardwood, often stumps and logs, through much of the year.
Fruiting period
March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November
Ecology
- Substrate
- Stumps, Living wood
- Notes
- Grows on dead and damaged hardwood, often stumps and logs, through much of the year.
How to separate similar species
Lenzites betulinus has a more distinctly gill-like fertile surface, while Trametes has more regular pores.