Laetiporus portentosus

White Punk at Rendezvous Creek, ACT

Laetiporus portentosus at Rendezvous Creek, ACT - 4 Aug 2019 12:29 PM
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Identification history

Laetiporus portentosus 9 Aug 2019 Heino1
Unverified 8 Aug 2019 BlackbirdandtheHun

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Saw just off the track thought it was a large piece of quartz. On closer inspection it clearly wasn't! Very visiable from a distance it was about the size of a football.

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Heino1 wrote:
   9 Aug 2019
This has fallen from a nearby tree and your photo shows what would be the underside if this was still attached to the tree. As usual with most sightings of this fungus, you see the results of insect chewing and boring.

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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
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