Fluffy trametes (Trametes pubescens)
- Vaega: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Vaevaega: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Vasega: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Vasega laiti: Incertae sedis (o le tulaga le mautinoa)
- Poloaiga: Polyporales (Polypore)
- Aiga: Polyporaceae (Polyporaceae)
- Genus: Trametes (Trametes)
- ituaiga: Trametes pubescens (Fluffy trametes)
- Trametes coated
Fluffy trametes – tinder fungus. It is an annual. Grows in small groups on dead wood, stumps and dead wood. Prefers hardwoods, very common on birch, occasionally on conifers. Maybe on treated wood. The species is easily recognized by its fleecy cap and thick-walled pores.
Fruit bodies are annual, overwintering, sessile, sometimes with a descending base. Caps of medium size, up to 10 cm in greatest dimension, furrowed, with bristles.
It is very short-lived, as the fruiting bodies are very quickly destroyed by various insects.
Their surface is ash-gray or grayish-olive, sometimes yellowish, often covered with algae. The pulp is white, thin, leathery. Hymenophore whitish in young mushrooms turns yellow with age, in old specimens it may be brownish or gray.
A similar species is hard-fibered trametes.
Fluffy trametes (Trametes pubescens) is an inedible mushroom.