Sighting 4256561
White Punk at Deakin, ACT
Identification history
| Laetiporus portentosus | 25 Apr 2020 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Laetiporus portentosus | 16 Apr 2020 | Pam | ||
| Unidentified | 14 Apr 2020 | JackyF |
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User's notes
Photo 1 within 2 metres of Fungus sighting 426557, photo 2 in same location as previous cluster of fungi sightings. Texture like a toadstool, not styrofoam. Not attached to ground, looks like a large decayed fungus fruiting body, possibly a more decayed version of sighting 426557.
2 comments
Pam
wrote:
15 Apr 2020
Remnants of an old Laetiporus portentosus. Yes these remnants do look like styrofoam because the insects just love to eat the fresh fungus leaving a myriad of holes and tunnels! This fungus grows on various living Eucalyptus trees causing brown cubical rot. Seems to be slow acting. The dry fungus is combustible and was once used as tinder for firelighting by pre-European Aborigines and early colonists
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.106265-35.325092
- Maps Red Hill Nature Reserve
- Places Deakin, ACT
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 14 Apr 2020 01:16 PM Recorded on
- JackyF Recorded by
Species information
- Laetiporus portentosus Scientific name
- White Punk Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-Invasive
- 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
