May to November.
Polyporus frondosus. Fr.
The Branched Polyporus. Edible.
Figure 321.—Polyporus frondosus. One-fifth natural size.
Frondosus, full of leafy branches. The tufts are from six inches to over a foot broad, very much branched, fibrous-fleshy, toughish.
The pileoli are very numerous, one-half to two inches broad, sooty-gray, dimidiate, wrinkled, lobed, intricately recurved. Flesh white. Stems, growing into each other, white.
The pores are rather tender, very small, acute, white, commonly round, but in oblique position, gaping open and torn. Fries.
The specimen in Figure 321 was found near Chillicothe. When tender it is very good. Found on stumps and roots from September till the coming of frost.