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Umbrella polypore

Polyporus umbellatus · Polypores (Polyporus)

Special mushroom – look, don’t pick Red List: Near threatened (V)
Umbrella polypore
📷 László Németh, Dr., CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

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Edible, but has become rare (Red List Germany: near threatened). Please leave it – if spared, the tuber in the ground produces new fruit bodies every year.

Recognise it safely – what matters

  1. Many small, round, centrally stalked caps
  2. One common branched base
  3. On the ground near old oaks or beeches

Features

Cap
Cluster (10–40 cm) of many, often over a hundred small round caps (1–4 cm), pale grey-brown to ochre, slightly depressed in the centre.
Underside
White, small pores, running down the little stalks.
Stem
Each cap sits centrally on its own little stalk; all arise from a common branched base.
Flesh
White, soft, later tough.
Smell
Pleasant.
Spore print
White.

Season

Habitat

On the ground above the roots of old oaks and beeches; grows from an underground tuber (sclerotium) and often appears at the same spot for years.

Dub, Buk

Risk of confusion

Hen-of-the-woods Spatula-shaped, laterally stalked caps and grows directly at the trunk base.

Never identify mushrooms by pictures or an app alone. When in doubt, ask a mushroom expert – and only pick what you know for sure.

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