Dryad's saddle
Cerioporus squamosus · 宽鳞多孔菌
Common多孔菌科🔥 Edible With Preparation
Sources report it requires expert processing before it can be eaten; cases of poisoning from improper handling have been recorded.
The same species can be described differently across regions and stages of maturity, and countless look-alike species cannot be told apart by eye. Never use the information on this page to judge whether a real mushroom is safe to eat.
How to Tell
- Large and fan-shaped, yellowish brown, covered in dark brown scales
- Underside white, pores large and irregular
- Grows in spring on hardwood trunks, smells of cucumber
ID notes are compiled by AI from public sources, not reviewed by a mycologist, for learning only — never a basis for foraging.
Basics
- Family
- 多孔菌科
- Hymenium
- Pores
- Grows On
- Wood
- How Big
- 10–50 cm (overall size)
- Encounter Rate
- Common
- Habitat
- Wounds on hardwoods and fallen trunks, in spring
Fun Fact
It has a distinct watermelon-rind smell, with large dark-brown scales arranged in concentric rings across the cap; only when very young does its texture avoid feeling like leather.