Polyporus varius Pers. ex Fr. Veränderlicher Porling Polypore variable. Cap 1–10cm across, infundibuliform, or irregularly kidney-shaped, depressed above the point of attachment to the stem, wavy and often lobed at the margin, ochre-brown with fine radial lines becoming tobacco-brown with age. Stem 5–30 x 5–15mm, lateral or off-centre, the basal part brown-black. Flesh white when fresh, drying corky and cream-coloured, tough and leathery. Taste slightly bitter, smell faint and mushroomy. Tubes 0.5–2.5mm long, decurrent down the stem, white to cream. Pores 4–7 per mm, circular, white becoming ochraceous-brown. Spores white, ellipsoid to fusiform, 5–9 x 3–4um. Hyphal structure dimitic with generative and binding hyphae; generative hyphae with clamp connections. Habitat on dead or dying deciduous trees. Season late spring to autumn, annual. Occasional. Not edible. Found In Europe.