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$The Polyporaceae are a family of poroid fungi belonging to the Basidiomycota. Often called Tinder mushroom.\nPolyporaceae is a family of fungi so named because their fertile surface takes the form of a layer of tubes, the mouths of which can be seen as 'pores' underneath the cap or shelf of the fungus. This family of fungi was named and described in 1838 by Elias Magnus, although August Corda beat him to the publication of this name.$

Fomes fomentarius mushroom on the trunk of an old poplar on a summer day.

Fomes fomentarius common known as the tinder fungus, false tinder fungus, hoof fungus, tinder conk, tinder polypore or ice man fungus - is a species of fungal plant pathogen, shaped like a horse hoof

chaga mushroom on a dead tree, outgrowth

Tree fungi, such as the tinder fungus, grow on trees and have ecological and historical uses, such as the production of tinder for fire-starting and medical purposes

Zaventem, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium - September 23, 2021:large fungus growing on tree trunk. Background Ikea site, a modern furniture chain. View of an outside building. Facade in yellow and blue colors

Massive hoof fungus (a mushroom) on tree trunk in autumn woods of New England

Big tinder fungus Fomes fomentarius on tree stem closeup on autumn background

In the forest on the tree grows the mushroom chaga

Dark mushrooms with a shelf-like formation on a cut surface of fallen tree.

the tinder fungus, or false tinder fungus, or hoof fungus, or tinder conk, or tinder polypore, or ice man fungus (Fomes fomentarius)

$Fomes fomentarius (L. ex Fr.) Kickx Echter Zunderschwamm Amadouvier, Hoof Fungus or Tinder Bracket. Bracket 5–45cm across, 3–25cm wide, 2–25cm thick, hoof-shaped, hard and woody, usually discrete but several fruit bodies may occur on the same trunk; upper surface with a hard horny crust, concentrically grooved and zoned grey. Flesh hard, fibrous, cinnamon-brown. Taste acrid, smell slightly fruity. Tubes 2–7mm long in each layer, rusty-brown. Pores 2–3 per mm, circular, light grey-brown darkening when handled.\n\nHabitat usually on birch in Scotland and Northern England, but also on beech (in the Netherlands). The few record from Southern England are mostly on beech and sycamore. Season sporulating in spring to early summer, perennial. Quite common in the Netherlands on Birch and Beech. Not edible. Distribution, America and Europe (source R. Phillips).\n\nThis is a beautiful Wood Fungus on dead Wood of Beech ( Fagus sylvatica) and Birch (Betula pendula). This one grows on a Trunk of Beech.\n\nIn earlier Days, the inner Part of the Fungus was used to make Fire.$