Fomitopsis pinicola

Description:

- Ther internal part is cream and hard of sour scent or to tobacco and the flavor disagreeably resinous. Spore ellipsoidal 6-9 X 3-5 m, of yellowish clear, flat color and non amiloides. Wooden dead parasite, generally of pines - of there their name. Also appears in alive and sick trees with a brown rottedness. Not edible, because of flavor and hard and fibrous consistency.CONFUSIONS: - A variety, F.pinicola var. effusa is similar to another mushroom parasite of the coniferous ones, Heterobasidion annosum, darker in general and with the sharp and not obtuse margin as F.pinicola and much more virulent in its attack to the tree that usually invades from the roots. - With the gender Fomes, especially with F.fomentarius but east believes a whitish and not brown podredumble. The pileo is also gray resinous with brown but never red orange areas. The species has been used as "tinder" for fire. It was also used in a preparation to treat wounds.