Ganoderma applanatum
A large, hard, perennial bracket on beech, poplar and many other trees, causing heart rot as both parasite and decomposer. Brackets add a new pore layer each year, and the white underside can be drawn on. It is rarely cultivated.
Where it grows wild
A wood-decay fungus of living and dead trunks and stumps, especially beech and poplar, also alder, oak, maple, willow, elm and conifers such as hemlock and spruce. It causes a white heart rot and can persist on dead wood for years.
Lowland to montane; the 58 records with an elevation span 14–2299 m (median 520 m).
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