Iron Porecrust - Fuscoporia ferrea
Phellinus ferreus
Initially forming small cushions 1 to 2 mm across which are cinnamon-yellow, later fusing and becoming cinnamon brown. Flesh rusty brown.
On dead branches of deciduous wood, especially hazel.
All year round.
Causes an intensive white rot which rapidly destroys the wood.
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Melinda Bell
Willesley Wood
01 April 2023
David Nicholls
Swithland Wood
11 November 2012
Melinda Bell
Loughborough,Outwoods
15 December 2021
smaller areas had fused together
Melinda Bell
Willesley Wood
01 April 2023
Melinda Bell
Willesley Wood
01 April 2023
Melinda Bell
Loughborough,Outwoods
15 December 2021
patch 20 cm max length
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Species profile
- Common names
- Iron Porecrust, Cinnamon Porecrust
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Hymenochaetales
- Family:
- Hymenochaetaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 4
- First record:
- 11/11/2012 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 01/04/2023 (Bell, Melinda)
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