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Pink pancake crust
Postia placenta
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Field Notes
Description:
Caps are often entirely resupinate, so that all that is visible is the pore surface, this fungus is usually quite loosely attached to its substrate timber.
The pores are irregular but often roundish to angular; usually with some of the pores appearing almost labyrinthine or maze-like; pores and tubes are various shades of pink and spaced 1.5 to 4 pores per mm.
Habitat:
This lovely but sadly all too rare polypore can be found on rotting stumps and fallen branches of coniferous trees, where separate fruitbodies expand and often fuse into large irregular patches. Pine wood is the most common host to this wood-rotting polyporous fungus, which causes brown rot. The pink or orange fertile surface is particularly distinctive, although the physical form of fruitbodies, and in particular the shapes of the pores, are very variable.
Notes:
Spotted on a Scotch pine tree stump at De Hooge Heide, Veluwe, Holland. (sources:see reference)
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