On oak stumps.
Decaying wood of deciduous trees. September.
It is remarkable for its large size and the dense hairy covering of the pileus and stem. Peck, 26th Rep. N.Y. State Bot.
A remarkably handsome fungus. A specimen taken from a cluster growing upon an apple tree measured 10 in. across. Its creamy whiteness, and short hairy stem make it unmistakable among other tree-fungi.
When very young it is edible, but soon becomes woody. Even when aged it yields a well flavored gravy.
P. farina´ceus Schum.—farina, meal. From the scurf on the pileus. Pileus cinnamon-umber, somewhat coriaceous, flexuous, cuticle separating into whitish-bluish-gray scurf. Stem short, lateral, of the same color as the pileus. Gills determinately free, distinct, paler.
The habit is that of P. stipticus. Stevenson.
Pennsylvania, A. pleurotus f., Schweinitz; Ohio, Morgan.
Var. albido-tomentosus. See [Panus albido-tomentosus].