Fruit body: wide up to 15 cm, long up to 7 cm and thick up to 3 cm, hoofe shaped, sometimes perrenial. Upper surface at first pale pink then brown-black, zoned, orange towards margin. Hymenial surface is pale pink, pores round (3 to 5 on 1 mm), each layer of tubes is thick up to 3 mm.

Microscopy: spores elongated ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 4.5-7x2-2.8 μm.

Flesh: cork like.

Habitat: perennial, on trunks and stumps of conifers. Very rare.

Edibility: inedible.

Reference: Pegler, D.N., Waterston, J.M., (1968). Fomitopsis rosea, CMI Descriptions of Pathogenic Fungi and Bacteria, vol. 198

Photo: Rossen Aleksov