Aurantiporus pulcherrimus (Strawberry bracket)
The fruitbody is a bracket-like polypore. It grows out of live or dead wood and may grow out to 10 or more centimetres. The bracket has a fleshy consistency and is commonly a bright red-orange – but may show pink or salmon shades when young.
The species was first described as Polyporus pulcherrimus in 1922, by Leonard Rodway of Tasmania, based on material collected in that state. It has long been known from eastern Australia and New Zealand and has also been reported from a few places in south and central America.
You may also see it referred to as Tyromyces pulcherrimus. The species epithet pulcherrimus means ‘very beautiful’.
Look-alikes
In the bracket-like fruitbodies of Fistulina the pored underside consists of numerous densely packed but distinctly separate tunes, not so in Aurantiporus. Pycnoporus fruitbodies are leathery and more orange.
Aurantiporus pulcherrimus is listed in the following regions:
Canberra & Southern Tablelands | Tasmania
Species information
- Aurantiporus pulcherrimus Scientific name
- Strawberry bracket Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1636.4m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
