Blushing Rosette - Abortiporus biennis
The fruit body is irregularly shaped or rosette-like, clustered or with short stems. Caps have a downy to felty surface which is initially whitish becoming pinkish or red-brown. The pores occasionally exude reddish droplets when it is in growth. The pores are large, 1 - 3 per mm, jagged or maze-like; iniitially pale then stained red-brown.
Photograph the whole clump in habitat, and individual caps in more detail; photograph the cap and the pore surface; note habitat and substrate.
Mainly on buried deciduous wood in grasslands e.g. parks, gardens, churchyards etc., but occasionally on stumps or woodchip
Autumn.
Widespread but infrequent in England.
Although it is recorded from time to time in Leicestershire and Rutland it remains infrequent.
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Species profile
- Common names
- Blushing Rosette
- Species group:
- fungus
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Polyporales
- Family:
- Meruliaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 21
- First record:
- 13/09/2010 (Watson, Ashley)
- Last record:
- 30/08/2025 (Carly Butler)
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