About Stereum hirsutum (Willd.) Pers.
The scientific name of this fungus is Stereum hirsutum (Willd.) Pers. It produces fuzzy, orangish fruiting bodies that usually grow as multiple brackets on dead wood. Individual caps are 1–5 centimetres (3⁄8–2 inches) wide, and caps sometimes fuse together to form wider shelves. Its flesh is thin and tough, spores and spore prints are white, and the species is inedible. It grows on dead limbs and trunks of both hardwoods and conifers, and is found across all of North America. Ecologically, it acts as a plant pathogen that infects peach trees, and it is itself parasitized by other species including the fungus Tremella aurantia.
