Pores commonly round, but in an oblique position, gaping open and torn. Fries.
North Carolina, Curtis; Iowa, Macbride; New York, Peck, 24th Rep.; West Virginia, 1881–1885, Chester county, Angora, Philadelphia, Pa. On stumps, roots, etc. Rare. September to frost, McIlvaine.
Edible. Curtis. Sold in the Roman market.
Tufts up to 12 in. across; the branches very numerous, up to 2 in. wide. The plant is tender when young and grows tough as it matures. When young it is of good flavor and edible—older it makes a well-flavored gravy, or is edible if chopped fine and very well cooked.
Polyporus intybaceus.
P. intyba´ceus Fr.—succory-like. Very much branched, fleshy, somewhat fragile. Pileoli very numerous, pale-yellowish inclining to fuscous, dimidiate, stretched out, sinuate, at length spathulate. Stems connate in a very short trunk. Pores firm, obtuse, white, inclining to dingy-brown. Fries.
About same size as P. frondosus and larger. Stevenson.
Spores colorless, elliptical, 7×3.5µ Massee; 6×3µ W.G.S.