#red-belted bracket

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Hadley, London, UK, June 2019

Red-belted bracket (Fomitopsis pinicola)

Some gorgeous faded rust colours on this old specimen of red-belted bracket, which has a brilliantly orange-red band when young.

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Aarhus, Denmark, February 2019

Red-belted bracket (Fomitopsis pinicola)

Identified by its red and orange belts of colour, this attractive bracket forms its distinctive ring between annual layers of growth, which also form its hoof-like shape as wider and wider layers of tubes (pores pictured underneath) build up over four or five years. 

Like other large polypores - in the  Fomitopsidaceae and Ganodermataceae families - this fungus is far too tough to be edible.