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Trametes pubescens

White rot fungus

Description

The cap is up to 6 cm wide, white with a yellow edge when young, later hairless, cream-coloured, yellow- brown or ochre, occasionally grey-striped. The pores are cream-coloured to light straw-yellow. The fruiting bodies are up to 0.5 cm thick, frequently  found in larger quantities in a roof-like formation one above the other. Unlike Trametes hirsuta, its cap is not bristle-like and it has a single-layer flesh. It causes white rot on dead trees.

Symptom

Presence of felted white fruiting bodies with a yellow margin, later glabrous, creamy, tan or ocher.

Tree Species: Birch, Beech, Cherry, Hornbeam, Alder

Part of a plant- attacked: Tree trunk

Pest significance: Harmful

Pest Category: Fungi

Invasive Species: No

Present in EU: Yes

Seasonal frequency of occurrence

Seasonal frequency of occurrence