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Fistulina hepatica
This unusual bracket fungi had been knocked off a tree base by a previous visitor. (Still has boot marks?) About 50mm across it had minute red star-like pores underneath, radial veins in a bright orange-red flocked top surface.
In the base of a large eucalyptus in a national park.
phylum: Basidiomycota
class: Agaricomycetes
order: Agaricales
family: Fistulinaceae
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/FISTULINA+...
7 Comments
Thank you Ernst. Glad you like them. For Leuba and I it is not really about the picture but more about learning species so some are not very clear. Maybe one day we will get a 'good' camera.
I can see by your species photos that it would be worth braving the leeches. They're not such a problem here - bull ants take their place!
Good spotting, Mark!
Thanks Caleb.
wow, amazing, very unusual great spotting mark ;)
You're right KD. It's fungi city in there at this time of year. Unfortunately it's also leech city as well... but worth it :-)
Looks like a great place for fungi Mark. This one's an unusual one, quite beautiful though.