Bleeding Broadleaf Crust Stereum rugosum (Pers.) Fr. (illustrated 75% life size) Fruit body usually resupinate, occasionally forming small, woody brackets; fertile surface buff, often tinged pink, bleeding red if cut when fresh, drying more ochre and often cracking. Flesh whitish; thin, stratified. Spores 9–13×3.5–5¼, elliptical; white, amyloid. Habitat on stumps, logs, and fallen branches of deciduous trees, especially hazel; all year. Very common. Not edible.
