A perennial bracket with very tough pale brown caps, often zonate; the pores are coarse and thick-walled and either gill-like or maze-like.

Daedaleopsis confragosa, the Blushing Bracket, is annual and thinner, reddening with age, and with narrower maze-gills

Photograph upper and lower fertile surface to show pores; note host plant and substrate

Oak, sometimes Sweet Chestnut

All year

A saprobic fungus

Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.

Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.