Daedaleopsis confragosa

Blushing Bracket

The fruiting bodies are arranged individually or loosely on top of each other. The edge of the fruiting body is thin, based on 1.5-3.0 cm, almost flat on the surface, wrinkled to almost smooth, markedly banded, ocher gray, ocher brown to reddish brown. The pores are unequally large, sometimes reticulate to scaly lath-shaped, light pink-ocher or pale red-brown, when young skin pink-pink, they change color to reddish-brown when pressed. Mycelium causes extensive white fibrous rot.

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Presence of grayling to reddish brown fruiting bodies on the trunk.

Tree Species: Birch, Beech, Rowan, Whitebeam, Alder, Hazel, Willow

Part of a plant- attacked: Tree trunk

Pest significance: Very harmful

Pest Category: Fungi

Invasive Species: No

Present in EU: Yes

Pest group: Fungi

Affected part of wood: Sapwood

Depth of damages: More than 5 cm depth, Under bark only, Up to 0,5 cm depth, Up to 2 cm depth, Up to 5 cm depth

The extent of damage: Whole trunk

Prevalence in Europe: Common

Damaged products: Firewood, Fresh timber logs (water still in the sapwood), Furniture, Lumber, boards and prisms, Wood chips, Wooden house constructions

Roundwood size: Branches and twigs, Diameter 50+, Diameter from 10 up to 50 cm

Wood discoloration: Yes

Pest subcategory: White-rot

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Daedaleopsis confragosa

Blushing Bracket

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