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Trametes fluffy is an annual tinder fungus. Belongs to the Polyporaceae family, genus Trametes. Another name is Trametes covered.
What does fluffy trametes look like?
The fruiting bodies are medium in size, thin, flat, sessile, rarely with descending bases. The edge is thin and curves inward. They can grow together with side parts or bases. The diameter of the caps is from 3 to 10 cm, thickness is from 2 to 7 cm.
The fungus is easily identified by its fleecy surface
Instances growing on the lateral surfaces are semi-prostrate, fan-shaped, imbricated, attached by a narrow base.Those that grow on horizontal ones consist of rosettes formed by several fruiting bodies. In youth the color is whitish, ashen, grayish-olive, cream, yellowish, in maturity it is ocher. The surface is in radial folds, wavy, velvety, felt or almost smooth, with inconspicuous concentric zones.
The spore-bearing layer is porous, tubular, at first white, cream or yellowish in color, then it can become brown or gray. The tubes reach 5 mm in length, the pores are angular and can be elongated.
The pulp is white, leathery, tough.
Where and how does it grow
Grows in small groups on dead wood: dead wood, stumps, dead wood. More often it settles on deciduous trees, especially birch, less often on conifers.
Fruits during summer and autumn.
Is the mushroom edible or not?
Fluffy trametes is inedible. It is not eaten.
Medicinal properties of fluffy tramethes
Has healing properties. The substances contained in it stimulate the immune system, have antitumor effects, improve metabolic processes in tissues, and restore liver function.
On its basis, the dietary supplement Tramelan is produced. It is believed that this remedy has a positive effect on fat metabolism, reduces cholesterol levels in the blood, and increases vascular tone. Tramelan is an antidepressant, relieves fatigue, causes a surge of strength, and fights fatigue.
Doubles and their differences
Similar view - rigid fiber trametes. This is an inedible mushroom with a thin gray cap. The fruiting bodies are half or prostrate, widely adherent, with hard pubescence on the surface and concentric areas separated by furrows. The edges of the cap are yellow-brown with a hard small edge. The pulp is two-layered, fibrous. It is found on stumps, dead wood, dead wood, and sometimes on wooden fences. Grows in shady forests and clearings. Distributed in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere.
The hard-fibered species settles on deciduous wood, very rarely on coniferous trees.
Another similar type - smoky tinder fungus. Not edible, with a large thick cap, in youth - loose, yellowish, in maturity it becomes brown. At first the edges are sharp, then they become dull.
The smoky polypore grows on dead wood and stumps of predominantly deciduous trees.
Birch polypore inedible, with a sessile fruiting body without a stalk, flattened or kidney-shaped. Young mushrooms are white, mature ones turn yellow, and the surface begins to crack. The pulp is bitter and tough. Grows on diseased and dead birch trees in small groups.
Birch polypore causes red rot, which destroys wood
Conclusion
Trametes fluffy is a tree mushroom. It is not used in cooking, but is used in medicine as a medicine and dietary supplement.
