Sighting 4246660
White Punk at Bawley Point, NSW
Identification history
| Laetiporus portentosus | 31 Jul 2024 | Heino1 | ||
| Laetiporus portentosus | 30 Dec 2019 | Pam | ||
| Unidentified | 30 Dec 2019 | GLemann |
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User's notes
White coral like fungus 140mm wide. Appearing in severely burnt out area about 3 weeks after fire with only a tiny sprinkle of rain since.
1 comment
Pam
wrote:
31 Dec 2019
This looks very much like a remnant of Laetiporus portentosus that has fallen from a nearby tree. These remnants often look like styrofoam because what was originally a bracket has been eaten by insects. Maybe after the fire this was one of the few food sources left for the insects to eat. If you look under species and go to fungi there is some information about this fungus. Unfortunately the image there is not all that representative of the fungus on a tree.
Location information
- Coordinates 150.389722-35.478063
- Maps Meroo National Park
- Places Bawley Point, NSW
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 29 Dec 2019 11:27 AM Recorded on
- GLemann Recorded by
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Collections
Fungi Pored or somewhat maze-like on underside [bracket polypores] Shelf-like to hoof-like & usually on wood GLemann South Coast NatureMapr
Species information
- Laetiporus portentosus Scientific name
- White Punk Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 995m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Piptoporus eucalyptorum (Fr.) Warcup, Ecology Forests Woodlands South Australia: 131 (1986) Piptoporus portentosus (Berk.) G. Cunn., Bull. N.Z. Dept. Sci. Industr. Res., Pl. Dis. Div. 164: 106 (1965) Piptoporus eucalyptorum Piptoporus portentosus
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