Conifer Blueing Bracket - Postia caesia
A small annual bracket, often hoof-shaped, white to greyish at first, but becoming a distinctive blue colour on the finely hairy upper surface. The pores are small, 4 - 5 per mm and blueish.
Photograph upper and lower fertile surface to show pores; note host plant and substrate
Conifers, mostly Spruce (Picea) or silver fir (Abies) trees
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain and Ireland.
Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.
Frank Bedford
Spring Cottage Road Garden
02 October 2022
Frank Bedford
Spring Cottage Road Garden
02 October 2022
Frank Bedford
Spring Cottage Road Garden
02 October 2022
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Species profile
- Common names
- Conifer Blueing Bracket
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Polyporales
- Family:
- Dacryobolaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 2
- First record:
- 03/11/2021 (Sexton, Timothy)
- Last record:
- 02/10/2022 (Bedford, Frank)
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