Trametes pubescens
A thin, cream-coloured bracket fungus with a finely velvety cap that lacks the contrasting zones of turkey tail. It is an annual white-rot decomposer of dead hardwood across the temperate Northern Hemisphere. It is inedible and grown only for study or for its wood-degrading enzymes; its genome was published in 2017.
Where it grows wild
A saprobe on dead hardwood, fruiting in clusters on logs, stumps and fallen branches; rarely on conifer wood. It is also reported as a weak pathogen of peach and nectarine.
Recorded from sea level to about 2260 m, median about 650 m.
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