Laetiporus portentosus

White Punk at Sutton, NSW

Request use of media

Identify this sighting

Laetiporus portentosus Heino1 23 Apr 2019
Laetiporus portentosus KenT 17 Apr 2019
Unverified Whirlwind 16 Apr 2019

Please Login or Register to identify this sighting.

User's notes

This fungus was on the eastern side of a Eucalyptus macrorhyncha.

3 comments

   17 Apr 2019
This doesn't look like the usual insect feeding, perhaps a possum has had a go at this one?
   17 Apr 2019
Could very well be as we do have possums, and sugar gliders as well out here.
Pam
   17 Apr 2019
Wow, that's some serious munching! I've never seen that before - bit different to the usual invertebrates.

Please Login or Register to comment.

Location information

Sighting information

  • 1 Abundance
  • 16 Apr 2019 03:40 PM Recorded on
  • Whirlwind Recorded by

Collections

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
  • 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
856,525 sightings of 23,824 species from 16,430 members
NatureMapr is developed by at3am | Made and hosted in Australia | privacy | CCA 3.0