Mushrooms Polyporus umbellatus

Local name - mushroom sheep . Russian name - Polyps umbrella . From a family skutigerovih - Scutigeraceae . Fruiting bodies up to 50 cm in diameter, branched tree, 3 numerous (100) branches, withsmall caps on the ends, with tuberous basis . Caps 1.5 - 4 cm in diameter, round, convex, concave subsequently rarely funnel, with equal or wavy edge: fawn, light ocher, sometimes petty scraps . Hymenophore tubular, white, descending the lower leg . Spores colorless, cylindrically - oval orfusiform, 2 x 10 7, 5 - 4 m . The flesh is white, fleshy, with a pleasant smell . Rare mushroom . Found in Polesie and in the Carpathians . It grows in August - October in deciduous forests at the base of the trunks and stumps of deciduous trees (mostly oak), which develops on the roots of the parasite . Good edible mushroom . Use fresh .