Laetiporus portentosus

9 White Punk at Forbes Creek, NSW

Laetiporus portentosus at Forbes Creek, NSW - 2 Mar 2025 12:54 PM
Laetiporus portentosus at Forbes Creek, NSW - 2 Mar 2025 12:54 PM
Laetiporus portentosus at Forbes Creek, NSW - 2 Mar 2025 12:54 PM
Laetiporus portentosus at Forbes Creek, NSW - 2 Mar 2025 12:54 PM
Laetiporus portentosus at Forbes Creek, NSW - 2 Mar 2025 12:54 PM
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Laetiporus portentosus 2 Mar 2025 JTran
Unidentified 2 Mar 2025 courtneyb

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The biggest fungus I’ve ever seen!

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JTran wrote:
   2 Mar 2025
Wow, what a specimen!

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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
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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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