Mushrooms Stereum oak

Three species of the genus Stereum, including a stereuma oak, hymeniumwhen damaged red . fruiting bodies prostrate, prostrate, or bent in the form of hats, adherent side . Cap 0.5 - 3 cm wide, thin, tight-leathery . top of it pubescent or covered with short hairs, with wide concentric, rusty ocher or brownish stripes; bottom with a smooth, ocher or light brownhymenium which is damaged quickly turns red . fruiting bodies sometimes occupy vast areas of the substrate . Spores colorless, smooth, elliptical, amyloid, size 7 - 9 x 3.5 - 4.5 mm . Often occurs throughout the year in deciduous and mixed forests, in plantations around the ponds on dead branches, trunks and stumpsmostly oak, at least birch, hornbeam, maple, etc. . inedible . Very similar to the inedible stereum blood-red (Stereum sanguinolentum), which is characterized by hairy, yellow-gray or ocher hats and grows in coniferous trees .