page_title: Polyporus umbellatus
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Polyporus umbellatus / Description
caption_attribution_description: Polyporus umbellatus, Bucey-lès-Gy 70700, France.
context_page_description: Polyporus umbellatus is a rare, edible species of mushroom, found growing on roots of old beeches or oak. It is also called lumpy bracket and umbrella polypore.
context_section_description: The fruit body is composed of numerous (sometimes several hundred) caps. They are 1–4 cm in diameter, deeply umbilicate, light brown, and form the extremities of a strong, many branched stalk. The compound fungus can be up to 40 cm in diameter. 
  The pores are narrow and white. The stalk is whitish grey, and originates from a strong, tuber-like nodule that is underground. The flesh is white, rather soft when young, although hardens with age.
caption: This fungus has many branched stalks
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