Fistulina hepatica (Schaeff.) With.
Family: Fistulinaceae
Beefsteak Fungus
Fistulina hepatica image
National Mushroom Centre  
Mata, M., D. Penjor and S. Pradham. 2010. Fungi of Bhutan. National Mushroom Centre, Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Thimphu, Bhutan.

Local name: No local name known

Edibility: Edible but it has strong sour taste which some may not like.

Habitat: Solitary to gregarious on woods

Description: Fruiting bodies: Bracket 5-15 (25) cm across and up to 4cm thick, tongue-shaped or semicircular.  Upper surface:  Red-pinkish to orange-red in colour and jelly when young and wet and rough with rudimentary pores especially toward the margin. Hymenophore: Tubes up to 1.5cm deep, free but adhering in maturity and whitish in colour. Three circular pores per/mm which are whitish at first then bruising to reddish brown in maturity or when bruised.  Stem:  Sometimes rudimentary or short, thick and blood red. Flesh:  Thick and succulent with dark flesh-pink and lighter veining with bloodlike sap. Spore Print: Pinkish.

Comment: It looks like a piece of red meat when sliced and blood-red liquid oozes out. It’s flesh is never tough like in other poly pores and bracket fungi. The similar species are Pseudo-fistulina radicata but this has greyish to pale red cap and its stem is longer and rooting.