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Ox tongue bracket
Fistulina hepatica
-37.88, 145.35
Field Notes
Description:
About 1 month ago I spotted this unusual pink spongy form squeezing out from the crack in a big, dead eucalyptus. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/21394292 I was amazed to see what it has become. A good example of the difficulties in IDing fungi purely by sight. Approx. 100mm wide.
Habitat:
Very tall wet eucalyptus rainforest.
Notes:
The veinous appearance of the upper surface seems to be typical of the species. Also noted ".. molecular studies suggest close relations to the agaric mushroom Schizophyllum ..... Fistulina is a cyphelloid genus, meaning that it is closely related to gilled fungi, but its fertile surface consists of smooth cup-shaped elements instead of gills. The underside (the hymenium) is a mass of tubules which represent a "reduced" form of the ancestral gills. "
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