Sparassis laminosa - Mushroom 100 to 250 (400) mm wide, 100 to 150 mm high, the shape of a loose bathing sponge, sessile, roundish, with dense, wavy, fan-shaped, broad and raised branches, which are almost regularly arranged, covered with a layer on both sides kind, growing out of the common core. First, off-white, later cream-colored, with age pale-brown, on surfaces often colorfully zoned.

Stem 5-10 x 3 mm, whitish, short, thick, meaty, sitting on the roots of an infected tree.

The flesh is chalk-white, whitish, bile-elastic, often with rooted twigs, needles, grains of sand, grasses. The smell is pleasantly fungal, slightly sour, the taste is mild.

Occurrence: Rare, single fruiting bodies, growing in summer and autumn at the base of deciduous and coniferous tree trunks, on oaks, beeches, firs, less often on spruces, more often in mountain coniferous forests.

Value: edible fungus.