Blackfoot Polypore - Polyporus leptocephalus
An annual stemmed polypore, variable and irregular in shape and size. The caps are tough and yellow-brown or buff in colour. It has a central or acentric stem which blackens from the base as it ages. Small, pale grey or cream pores, c. 6 per mm, darkening with age. Spores are white and cylindrical
Polyporus badius has a dark stem (not just the base).
Photograph from top down, in side view and underneath to show pores and full length of stem; note habitat and substrate
Broad leaved trees
Late spring to autumn.
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
06 November 2013
det. R Iliffe from specimen
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
06 November 2013
det. R Iliffe from specimen
Jane Hollingworth
Tom Long's Meadow Quorn
21 October 2025
Jane Hollingworth
Tom Long's Meadow Quorn
21 October 2025
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Species profile
- Common names
- Blackfoot Polypore
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Polyporales
- Family:
- Polyporaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 4
- First record:
- 06/11/2013 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 21/10/2025 (Hollingworth, Jane)
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