Smoky polypore or smoky bracket (Bjerkandera adusta), one-year-old arboreal mushroom, without a stem. His hat has decorative sides, is tiled, in the shape of plates, sometimes it is outstretched and blends with other individuals.  

    The hat has the shape of a semicircle up to 70 mm long, up to 20 mm wide. Uneven, pleated, as if suede. the color of young fruiting bodies is fawn, gray-brown, later black-brown, black, with light concentric zones. The edge is thin, young whitish then blackening.  

    The pores are round or slightly angular, the flesh is up to 3 mm thick. In the upper part it is whitish in color, later gray. The smell is quite mushroom, the aftertaste can be slightly sour.  

    Occurrence It can be found especially on beech, oak, rake, maple, birch, very rarely on coniferous, spruce trees, on Douglas fir in deciduous and mixed forests, in parks, gardens, on dead and living trees. It grows singly or in groups. It is quite common. Value The mushroom is not poisonous but inedible.