Laetiporus portentosus

White Punk at Cooma, NSW

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Identification history

	Laetiporus portentosus	28 Feb 2025	Heinol
	Ganoderma sp.	11 Feb 2025	mahargiani

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On horizontal portion of trunk of a Eucalyptus cinerea specimen. The top was smooth about 4 days ago, have had one heavy storm since then. Became detached when I tried to cut a small portion off, second photo is underside. Appeared to be solid and white throughout.

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Heinol wrote:

28 Feb 2025

Well-chewed, as is so often the case with this species.

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Location information

Coordinates 149.126144 -36.216171
Altitude 887.0m
Maps Cooma North Ridge Reserve
Places Cooma, NSW

Sighting information

1 Abundance
11 Feb 2025 01:29 PM Recorded on
mahargiani Recorded by
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mahargiani NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Pored or somewhat maze-like on underside [bracket polypores] Shelf-like to hoof-like & usually on wood Fungi

Species information

Laetiporus portentosus Scientific name
White Punk Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 1207.23m Recorded at altitude
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Synonyms
Piptoporus eucalyptorum (Fr.) Warcup, Ecology Forests Woodlands South Australia: 131 (1986) Piptoporus portentosus (Berk.) G. Cunn., Bull. N.Z. Dept. Sci. Industr. Res., Pl. Dis. Div. 164: 106 (1965) Piptoporus eucalyptorum Piptoporus portentosus

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