Phlebia red (Phlebia rufa)
- Merulius rufus
- Serpula rufa
- Phlebia butyracea
Phlebia red refers to fungi of the corticoid type. It grows on trees, preferring birch, although it also occurs on other hardwoods. Often grows on fallen trees, on stumps.
Red phlebia is usually seen in deciduous and mixed forests, and it often settles on weakened trees.
In European countries, it grows both in summer and autumn, but in Our Country – only in autumn, from September to the end of November. Not afraid of the first frosts, tolerates small cold snaps.
Fruiting bodies prostrate, rather large in size. They differ in colorful coloring – yellowish, white-pink, orange. Thanks to this color, the mushroom on the trunk is visible at a great distance.
Fruit body shapes are rounded, most often of indefinite blurred outlines.
The mushroom Phlebia rufa is inedible. In a number of European countries it is protected (included in the Red Lists).