Inonotus triqueter - A one-year-old mushroom, permanent, attached to the side or growing out of the stem. Usually tiled in the group, sometimes overgrown.

Cap diameter 30-100 mm, circular, semicircular. Surface when young, hairy, later lumpy, folded, usually radially or concentrically zoned; yellow, cinnamon brown, rusty brown in old age. Sharp, lighter, wavy edge. Hymenophore tubular, gray, gray-brown.

Tubes 2-5 mm long.

Round or slightly angular pores, irregular, 1-4 m mm.

Stem 10-20 mm long, eccentric or lateral, thick, sometimes funnel-shaped. Woolly, hairy at the base.

Heterogeneous pulp; soft, felt in the upper part; in the bottom - hard, golden brown, glossy in the middle. Mild taste.

Occurrence: in coniferous and mixed forests with pine, stumps, roots, buttocks of live and dead pines. It grows individually or in small groups. Rare.

Value: Inedible mushroom.