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Cinnabar-red polypore.

Pycnoporus cinnabarinus

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13.7708, 100.623

Field Notes

Description:

Fruiting body: 2-12 cm across, 2-8 cm wide, 0.5-2.0 cm thick, kidney or fan-shaped; leathery, becoming corky when dried; upper surface covered in fine soft hairs when young, giving them a pruinose appearance; later smooth and wrinkled, cinnabar -red or orange-red, color decreasing in intensity with age.
Tubes: 2-6 mm long, cinnabar red.
Pores: 2-4 per mm, round or angular, cinnabar-red.
Spores: white, oblong-ellipsoid, non-amyloid, 4.5-6 x 2-3 µm.
Spore print: white.

Habitat:

lives on dead deciduous trees, especially cherry, beech and birch.

Notes:

it in my garden , on the stub of the dead tree

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PublishedMarch 13, 2012

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