Inonotus hispidus (Bull. ex Fr.) Karst. Pelzporling Polypore hérisée, Shaggy Bracket Bracket 6–25cm across, 4–12cm wide, 2–10cm thick, fan-shaped, usually single but occasionally fusing with others into overlapping groups, surface felty-hairy varying from ochraceous to tobacco-brown, finally blackish and bristly. Tubes 10–20(50)mm long. Pores 2–3 per mm, circular to angular, pale ochraceous at first, later brown and glancing in the light. Spores rust, subglobose, 9–12´4–10m. Habitat usually on ash but commonly on other trees such as elm, apple and walnut. Season summer but persisting on the tree in blackened state throughout the year, annual. Frequent. Not edible. Distribution, America and Europe.