Bitter Bracket - Postia stiptica
A small shelf-like or hoof-shaped annual bracket, whitish in colour, with a soft, ridged, felty cap. The pores are small, at 4 - 6 per mm., more or less rounded. When fresh it exudes whitish drops. It has a very bitter taste.
other Postia
taste 
Photograph upper and lower fertile surface to show pores; note host plant and substrate
Conifer trees, almost always Spruce
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
David Nicholls
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
15 November 2023
LFSG visit
Melinda Bell
Donisthorpe Woodland Park
18 October 2022
pore surface - bitter taste
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
04 November 2015
det. R Iliffe from specimen
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
Melinda Bell
Moira,Sarah's Wood
26 October 2024
fuzzy upper surface
bitter taste
davidwright
Charley Woods
28 October 2021
Dave Wright Charley Woods 28th October 2021
Melinda Bell
Sence Valley Country Park
16 August 2023
Melinda Bell
Sence Valley Country Park
16 August 2023
yielding flesh tasted bitter
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Species profile
- Common names
- Bitter Bracket
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Polyporales
- Family:
- Dacryobolaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 7
- First record:
- 02/11/2015 (Stevens, Ron)
- Last record:
- 26/10/2024 (Bell, Melinda)
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