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Fomes fomentarius
Very tough shelf fungus on eucalyptus. Top (cracking) is very hard and woody and spore surface is oily
Suburban park.
see another one here; http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/836...
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Thanks argybee. It does look like a tinder fungus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fomes_fomen...
Please check you latin name for your spotting (Podoserpula pusio) - is that the name you intended to give to your tinder spotting?
Forgot to say I am testing this as tinder. It's almost dry enough.
Hi martin. The underneath is interesting so you might like to check this one http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/834... and the reference therein which is http://www.anbg.gov.au/fungi/mycogeograp...
Phellinus sp.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Common...