Mushrooms Beefsteak Fungus

Local name - oyster, yaztsya liver . Russian name - pechenochnitsa common . From a family fistulinovih - Fistulinaceae . Fruiting bodies lateral, sessile or with short legs, caps 10 - 20 (30) cm wide, 2 - 6 cm thick, juicy, meaty, dry out with age, dense, elastic; grow singly or in small groups . Caps yellow-like,semicircular, more or less radially - striped, tuberculate, purple - red or purple - meat - red, with age dark - brown - red . The pulp from the juice chervonuva ¬, with blond streaks, sour taste . Hymenophore tubular , whitish, yellowish . In the peripheral tissues cap layer formed ellipsoidal conidia 6- 10 x 4 -6m . pustules rusty - brown . Spores colorless, light yellow - pink, ovoid, smooth, 4 - 5,5 x 3 -4 m . Distributed in Polesie and in the Carpathians . It grows in deciduous forests in August - October . Most often develops on the living ists ¬ storms, at the base of the trunks (in hollows) old oaks and beeches as a parasite . Young edible fungus good . Use it fresh .