Bitter Bracket - Postia stiptica
A white irregular shaped bracket up to 10 cm across, but often less. 1 to 3 cm thick. Lower (fertile) surface with tubes and pores; watery droplets are exuded mainly from margin region and from the pores. Very bitter taste. It may turn ochre-brown when old.
Usually on felled trunks and large fallen branches of conifers; very occasionally on the timber of hardwood trees.
All year round, but especially in Autumn.
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
04 November 2015
specimen examined
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
04 November 2015
specimen examined
davidwright
Charley Woods
28 October 2021
Dave Wright Charley Woods 28th October 2021
davidwright
Charley Woods
28 October 2021
Dave Wright Charley Woods 28th October 2021
davidwright
Charley Woods
28 October 2021
Dave Wright Charley Woods 28th October 2021
mttnx
Great Merrible Wood
14 November 2021
2021-10-09
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Species profile
- Common names
- Bitter Bracket
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Polyporales
- Family:
- Fomitopsidaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 7
- First record:
- 02/11/2015 (Stevens, Ron)
- Last record:
- 15/11/2023 (Nicholls, David)
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