Scarlet Bracket
Pycnoporus sanguineus
14.651, 121.049
Field Notes
Description:
Orange scarlet fungi of different shapes and sizes.
Habitat:
Spotted on a decaying tree bark (urban area)
Notes:
"The appropriately named “Scarlet Bracket” is one of the most common and colourful brackets that can be found even in dry weather growing on sticks and wood.
Fruit-body: Orange scarlet, fan shaped, firm bracket attaching along the straight edge to wood. Size is very variable. Juvenile fruit-bodies are a lovely scarlet colour; the underside is a deeper colour and consists of fine pores. As this fungus ages, the bracket gets larger; also the surface colour tends to fade with age and exposure to strong sunlight – in fact some old specimens are bleached to white, but usually the pores retain some colour." http://qldfungi.org.au/garden-fungi/garden-fungi-what-is-that-fungus-in…
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