Fistulina hepatica - The hat reaches 8-20 cm (40 cm) in diameter and 2 to 6 cm thick; has a spatulate shape, lingual to the podolowatego, narrows in place of growth; pale pink, calico-pink surface in young fruiting bodies becomes orange-red with age, to flesh-brown; the skin has a rough, papillary, radially brindled surface; the young fruiting bodies often show red droplets on the hat; it is covered with a slimy jelly.
The tubes reach 10-15 mm in length, they are small, separated from each other, whitish to cream-yellow.
The pores are very fine (4-7pcs per mm), circular, whitish, yellowish to rusty-brown.
The stem is missing.
Flesh resembles meat, it is juicy, fleshy, elastic, in older sporocarps fibrous, fibrous; it has a pink-red color, blood-red; fruitiness; sour taste.
Occurrence: from August to October, mainly on old oaks, often in hollows and on chestnut; rare.
Value: fungus after cooking, but only young fruiting bodies; a parasite that causes brown rot in wood; he lives on dead wood as a saprophyte.