- Fruitbody soft, annual, saffron-yellow to orange-yellow.
- Cap up to 25 cm across, semicircular, forming a rounded bracket.
- Tubes orange-red to red-yellow, with lighter, silver-shimmering pores.
- Flesh often distinctly concentrically zoned in cross-section.
Polypores
Orange Polypore
Aurantiporus croceus
CR
Critically endangered
Inedible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows on trunks and trunk cavities of both living and dead, old, veteran oaks and chestnuts in broadleaf forests, leafy meadows and pastures.
Notes
A rare polypore on veteran trees of Quercus and Castanea in old-growth forest. Has significantly declined during the last 200 years and are now very rare and scattered.
Similar species
Laetiporus sulphureus is thinner and with more wavy and undulating brackets.
