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Fluffy trametes is an annual tinder fungus. Belongs to the Polypore family, genus Trametes. Another name is Trametes covered.
What does fluffy trametes look like
Fruit bodies are medium in size, thin, flat, sessile, rarely with decurrent bases. The edge is thin, it is bent inside. They can grow together with each other side parts or bases. The diameter of the hats is from 3 to 10 cm, the thickness is from 2 to 7 cm.
The fungus is easily identified by the fleecy surface
The specimens growing on the lateral surfaces are semi-prostrate, fan-shaped, with a tiled arrangement, attached by a narrow base. Those that grow on horizontal ones consist of rosettes formed by several fruiting bodies. In youth, the color is whitish, ashy, grayish-olive, cream, yellowish, in maturity – ocher. The surface is in radial folds, wavy, velvety, felted or almost smooth, with inconspicuous concentric zones.
The spore-bearing layer is porous, tubular, at first white, cream or yellowish in color, then it can become brown or gray. The tubes reach 5 mm in length, the pores are angular and may be elongated.
The pulp is white, leathery, hard.
Where and how to grow
Grows in small groups on dead wood: fallen wood, stumps, deadwood. More often settles on deciduous trees, especially on birch, less often on conifers.
Fruits during summer and autumn.
Is the mushroom edible or not?
Fluffy trametes is inedible. It is not used for food.
Medicinal properties of fluffy trametes
Has healing properties. The substances in it stimulate the immune system, have antitumor effects, improve metabolic processes in tissues, and restore liver function.
On its basis, the biologically active additive Tramelan is made. It is believed that this remedy has a positive effect on fat metabolism, lowers cholesterol levels in the blood, and increases vascular tone. Tramelan is an antidepressant, relieves fatigue, causes a surge of energy, fights fatigue.
Twins and their differences
similar view- hard fiber trametes. It is an inedible mushroom with a thin gray cap. Fruiting bodies half or procumbent, widely adherent, with hard pubescence on the surface and concentric areas separated by furrows. The edges of the cap are yellow-brown with a small hard edge. The pulp is two-layer, fibrous. Occurs on stumps, deadwood, deadwood, sometimes on wooden fences. It grows in shady forests and clearings. Distributed in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere.
Hard-fiber settles on hardwood, very rarely on coniferous
Another similar view is tinder fungus smoky. Not edible, with a large thick cap, in youth – loose, yellowish, in maturity it becomes brown. The edges are sharp at first, then dull.
The smoky polypore grows on deadwood and stumps of mainly deciduous trees.
Birch polypore inedible, with a sessile fruiting body without a stem, flattened or reniform. Young mushrooms are white, mature ones turn yellow, the surface begins to crack. The flesh is bitter and hard. Grows on diseased and dead birches in small groups.
Birch tinder causes red rot that destroys wood
Conclusion
Fluffy trametes – tree fungus. It is not used in cooking, but is used in medicine as a medicine and dietary supplement.
