Sighting 4205274
White Punk at Towamba, NSW
Identification history
| Laetiporus portentosus | 30 Mar 2019 | Pam | ||
| Unverified | 30 Mar 2019 | SueMuffler |
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User's notes
Beneath eucalypts on Mount Imlay.
2 comments
Pam
wrote:
31 Mar 2019
Sue this is a remnant of Laetiporus portentosus. Often this 'styrofoam' looking remnant, one usually finds lying on the forest floor, is often all a lot of people ever see of this fungus - which looks really good when fresh. This fungus causes white hear-rot in living Eucalyptus species. Though it must work slowly as I've been seeing it on a tree on the hill behind our place for a number of years and the tree still looks healthy! The insects absolutely love it hence all the holes where they've chewed their way through this great food source for them. Most probably dispersing spores as they go. I've been finding a few of these remnants in our area over the last couple of months Good find.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.727194-37.170609
- Places Towamba, NSW
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 28 Mar 2019 03:05 PM Recorded on
- SueMuffler Recorded by
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Collections
SueMuffler South Coast NatureMapr Laetiporus portentosus Pored or somewhat maze-like on underside [bracket polypores] Shelf-like to hoof-like & usually on wood Fungi
Species information
- Laetiporus portentosus Scientific name
- White Punk Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1207.23m Recorded at altitude
- 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