Key Identification Features
- • Kidney-shaped to semicircular white bracket exclusively on birch trees • Surface smooth, cream to pale tan
- underside white with tiny pores • Flesh white, rubbery, tough
- very bitter taste • Found on birch trunks, living and dead • No gills
- bracket 3–25 cm wide
⚠ Inedible: This species is not considered edible. It may be unpalatable, too tough, or otherwise unsuitable for consumption — but it is not known to be dangerously toxic. Do not eat it.
Regions Found
Region data not available
Look-Alikes
No documented look-alikes on record.
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