Rusty Porecrust - Fuscoporia ferruginosa
A small bracket fungus that is cinnamon to rusty brown in colour, usually between 5 and 15 cm across and up to 1.5 cm thick, with little swellings along the margin.
Often found on the branches of Oak, but also on other trees.
All year round
Annual or perennial
Fairly frequent and widespread throughout England
Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland.
 Rusty Porecrust (Phellinus ferruginosus) Donkey Lane Sapcote SP 4865 9314 (taken 21.4.2010).JPG)
Graham Calow
Sapcote
21 April 2010
Melinda Bell
New Lount Nature Reserve
16 February 2021
magnified pores
Melinda Bell
New Lount Nature Reserve
16 February 2021
patch 4cm long
Melinda Bell
Woodhouse Lane,path
31 December 2021
10 cm long
Melinda Bell
Moira,Newfields Wood
08 February 2023
9cm long
Melinda Bell
Moira,Newfields Wood
08 February 2023
 Rusty Porecrust (Phellinus ferruginosus) Donkey Lane Sapcote SP 4865 9314 (taken 21.4.2010).JPG)
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Species profile
- Common names
- Rusty Porecrust
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Hymenochaetales
- Family:
- Hymenochaetaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 5
- First record:
- 21/04/2010 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 08/02/2023 (Bell, Melinda)
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Melinda Bell
New Lount Nature Reserve
16 February 2021
Melinda Bell
Felicity's Wood, off Dean's Lane, Woodhouse
07 January 2022
