Oak Curtain Crust - Hymenochaete rubiginosa
Usually seen in bracket form on dead oak stumps, but can also be resupinate. Non-fertile surface (upper surface of bracket) is brown with a paler margin, and fine velvery hairs; fertile surface (underneath bracket) is smooth or slighlty lumpy, and rusty brown to darker brown
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Usually dead oak stumps or cut/broken surfaces
Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.
Melinda Bell
Holly Hayes Wood,Whitwick
24 December 2022
thin white growth margins
Melinda Bell
Calke,Southwood
09 January 2023
Melinda Bell
Shepshed,Piper Wood
22 October 2023
underside
Melinda Bell
Charley Woods
21 December 2022
Melinda Bell
Holly Hayes Wood,Whitwick
24 December 2022
Isabel Raval
Cademan Wood
15 October 2024
Melinda Bell
Shepshed,Piper Wood
22 October 2023
Melinda Bell
Holly Hayes Wood,Whitwick
24 December 2022
older underside
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- Common names
- Oak Curtain Crust
- Species group:
- Fungi
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- Records on NatureSpot:
- 10
- First record:
- 03/11/2021 (Sexton, Timothy)
- Last record:
- 15/10/2024 (Isabel Raval)
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