Bleeding Oak Crust - Stereum gausapatum
This fungus initially grows in circular crusts and can then develop small overlapping brackets. It is ochre-brown with a pale margin and very leathery. It 'bleeds' red when cut.
Stereum rugosum is similar but lacks the pale margin and is found on several deciduous trees but not on Oak.
On fallen wood and dead attached branches of Oak.
All year round
Widespread and fairly common in Britain
Frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
David Nicholls
Burbage Common
22 October 2005
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
06 November 2013
specimen examined
David Nicholls
Swiuthland Wood
11 November 2012
David Nicholls
Swiuthland Wood
11 November 2012
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Species profile
- Common names
- Bleeding Oak Crust
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Russulales
- Family:
- Stereaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 26
- First record:
- 22/10/2005 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 07/12/2023 (Bell, Melinda)
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David Nicholls
Burbage Wood
07 November 2013
