Habitat: Woodland

Substrate: stumps, logs, and dead trees

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Edibility: Not edible

Not edible

B. fumosus occurs on similar substrates in our area. It differs from B. adusta by having thicker flesh and buff to pale smoky gray pores and a dark line above the base of the tubes (cut through fruitbody). Both these fungi could be mistaken for species of Stereum or Trametes. The former, however, have a smooth surface under the cap, while the latter have white to pale gray pores and their caps are more or less zonate.

Sources: Trudell, Steve and Joe Ammirati. Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest. Portland, Timber Press, Inc. 2009. Roberts, Peter and Evans, Shelley. The Book of Fungi. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2011.