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Rigidoporus laetus
A good stack of dripping wet pizza-like fungi occupying a hollow in the base of a very large eucalyptus. Each pizza was up to 100mm across. Pores in a white latex-like surface underneath. Rubbery to touch. Permanently exuding droplets of clear fluid.
National park of very tall eucalyptus forest; permanently wet and fairly dark.
ID from 'Fuhrer' - 'A Field Guide to Australian Fungi' - A beautiful and clean 'young' version of this can bee seen at Wikimedia... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
Thanks a lot for the suggestions Guiseppe and Shannon. As is so often the case 'down under' a species may look like a northern hemisphere cousin but ends up being something different. Shannon.. yours has actually been recorded in Aus. but not in this area since 1953 ! (from imported material). Guiseppe likewise - there have been a couple of records of it much further north in Aus. but not around here. Sorry peoples but I have to go with what is most likely. Thanks again.
Spotted on May 7, 2012
Submitted on Jun 10, 2012
