Sparassis brevipes Krombh. |
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.
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 . | ||
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