How to identify it?
Fruiting Body
Fruiting body medium sized; semicircular, irregularly bracket-shaped, or kidney-shaped.
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Cap 5-15 cm across, semicircular, irregular elbow or kidney; burnt amber around the edge, darken to an almost black color closer to the mushroom's connection to the tree or log; surface rugged, velvety. Flesh tough, bright yellowish brown to orange-brown. Odour and taste not distinctive.
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Pores dark purplish brown to brown or reddish brown, 6-8 pores per mm.
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Scientific Classification
Phylum
Club fungi Class
Mushroom-forming fungi Order
Hymenochaetales Family
Hymenochaetaceae Genus
Phellinus Species
Mustard yellow polypore