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Ox tongue

Fistulina hepatica

Description:

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.

Habitat:

In the base of a large eucalyptus in a national park.

Notes:

phylum: Basidiomycota
class: Agaricomycetes
order: Agaricales
family: Fistulinaceae
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/FISTULINA+...

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7 Comments

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 9 years ago

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.

kdpicturemaker
kdpicturemaker 9 years ago

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!

arlanda
arlanda 9 years ago

Good spotting, Mark!

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 9 years ago

Thanks Caleb.

Caleb Steindel
Caleb Steindel 9 years ago

wow, amazing, very unusual great spotting mark ;)

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 9 years ago

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 :-)

kdpicturemaker
kdpicturemaker 9 years ago

Looks like a great place for fungi Mark. This one's an unusual one, quite beautiful though.

Mark Ridgway
Spotted by
Mark Ridgway

Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Apr 28, 2014
Submitted on Apr 29, 2014

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