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Shaggy Bracket
Inonotus hispidus is a large annual bracket fungus with a shaggy, hairy upper surface. It grows on living broadleaf trees, especially ash and apple. Young brackets are rusty orange to reddish-yellow and soft, and often weep droplets. They darken and finally turn black and brittle before falling off. It causes a white heart-rot that weakens trunks and branches.
Inedible: tough and fibrous. It has been used medicinally in eastern Asia, and its styrylpyrone pigments (hispidin and derivatives) are studied for antioxidant activity.
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