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| location: North America, Europe |
| edibility: Inedible |
| fungus colour: Brown, Black or blackish |
| normal size: 5-15cm |
| cap type: Funnel shaped |
| stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent, Stem much longer than cap diameter |
| spore colour: White, cream or yellowish |
| habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground, Grows on wood |
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Polyporus melanopus Fr. Cap 3-10cm across, convex with an even margin, then funnel-shaped or flattish with a wavy margin which is deflexed in older specimens; bay brown or purplish brown with pale yellowish lines; smooth and velvety, then very wrinkled, especially in the middle. Tubes up to 3mm deep, decurrent in specimens with a lateral stem; cream to straw-colored. Pores 4-7 per mm, round; whitish to cream then pale straw. Stem 10-50 x 2-8mm, central or lateral; dark brown then black, white inside; velvety becoming longitudinally wrinkled. Flesh about 1mm thick; white to cream. Spores cylindrical to oblong ellipsoid, nonamyloid, 6-8 x 3-4µ. Habitat on the ground or on buried wood. Found in Europe and northern North America, especially in the far north. Season July-September. Not edible. |
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