Bitter Bracket - Postia stiptica
A white irregular shaped bracket up to 10 cm across. 1 to 3 cm thick. Lower (fertile) surface with tubes and pores that exude a watery liquid. It has a very bitter taste.
Conifer trees, almost always
All year round, but especially in Autumn.
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
David Nicholls
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
15 November 2023
Melinda Bell
Donisthorpe Woodland Park
18 October 2022
pore surface
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
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
04 November 2015
specimen examined
davidwright
Charley Woods
28 October 2021
Dave Wright Charley Woods 28th October 2021
mttnx
Great Merrible Wood
14 November 2021
2021-10-09
Melinda Bell
Sence Valley Country Park
16 August 2023
Melinda Bell
Moira,Sarah's Wood
26 October 2024
fuzzy upper surface
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Species profile
- Common names
- Bitter Bracket
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Polyporales
- Family:
- Dacryobolaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 8
- First record:
- 02/11/2015 (Stevens, Ron)
- Last record:
- 26/10/2024 (Bell, Melinda)
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