Species details
Yellowing curtain crust
Stereum subtomentosum
Inedible
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Description
A thin fan-shaped crust fungus with a velvety multicolour-zoned upper surface and smooth yellowish fertile surface that yellows when bruised.
Identification features
Fruitbodies are 2–7 cm wide, leathery, fan-shaped and wavy. The upper surface is velvety and zoned grey, orange and brown; the underside is smooth.
Identification checklist
Check the thin fan-shaped fruitbody, velvety zoned upper surface and smooth underside that yellows when injured.
Detailed features
- Hymenophore
- The upper surface is velvety and zoned in grey, orange and brown tones; the underside is smooth.
Habitat
Grows year-round on dead hardwood, especially alder, beech and willow.
Fruiting period
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
Ecology
- Host trees
- Beech (Fagus), Willow (Salix), Alder (Alnus)
- Substrate
- Dead wood
- Notes
- Grows year-round on dead hardwood, especially alder, beech and willow.
How to separate similar species
Stereum hirsutum is more distinctly hairy and usually more orange-brown beneath. Trametes has pores.