Cerioporus squamosus

(Dryad's saddle)

Habitat and Hosts:Grows on hardwood stumps, logs, and standing trees. It is easily recognized by its large size, its colors, the flattened scales on the cap, the black and velvety stem base (present on mature specimens), and its strongly mealy odor. SaprobicMushrooms that are saprobes survive by decomposing dead or decaying organic material and using it as food. Many wood-rotting fungi are saprobes, and help decompose deadwood—but other wood rotters are parasitic and attack living wood. on decaying hardwood logs and stumps, and parasitic on living hardwoods