Sparassis brevipes    Krombh. 

common name(s) : Short-stemmed Cauliflower Fungus, Brain Fungus 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Incertae sedis/Polyporales/Sparassidaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Polyporales/Sparassidaceae  

synonyms: Sparassis laminosa, Sparassis nemecii, Sparassis spathulata 

edibility : edible

photo gallery of  Sparassis brevipes
photo gallery of  Sparassis brevipes potential confusions with  Sparassis brevipes toxicity of Sparassis brevipes genus Sparassis  

The fruiting body is a round mass of crisped wavy ribbons, cauliflower-like, white to ochre, without stem, but with a short, thick and rooting trunk.

The flesh is yellow; the odour is of bleach.

The fertile surface is smooth.

It grows on wood, on broad-leaved tree trunks, also on conifers, sometimes as a parasite, on oaks, beech, fir, also spruce.

The fruiting period takes place from August to December.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 37 cm (between 10 and 80 cm)

Distinctive features : cauliflower-like, a round mass of not very dense, slightly crisped and flattened lobes, cream to ochre, emerging from a thick and short central stem; pleasant smell, also of bleach; on roots or stumps of deciduous trees (rarely conifers)

Sparassis brevipes is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Sparassis brevipes in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Sparassis brevipes in the forest of Rambouillet



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