Blushing Rosette - Abortiporus biennis

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Description

Fruit body variable, irregularly top-shaped, or rosette-like, or fused together into amorphous masses, 3 to 9 cm across, flattened to concave, surface downy to felty, whitish soon becoming pinkish. Poroid, but there can be projections around the pores giving a toothed appearance.
 

Identification difficulty
Habitat

On the ground from roots or wood chips of deciduous trees.

When to see it

Autumn.

UK Status

Widespread but infrequent in England.

VC55 Status

Although it is recorded from time to time in Leicestershire and Rutland it remains infrequent.

  • David Nicholls
    Battram Wood
    17 October 2015
  • Lostash
    Leicester Botanical Gardens
    13 September 2010
  • Lostash
    Blaby Bypass
    25 October 2015
  • Lostash
    Blaby By-Pass footpath
    20 November 2011
  • mttnx
    Great Merrible Wood
    25 September 2022
  • Melinda Bell
    Calke,Southwood
    14 October 2022
  • Catherine Horrell
    Southwood
    01 October 2022

Leicestershire & Rutland Map

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Species profile

Common names
Blushing Rosette
Species group:
Fungi
Kingdom:
Fungi
Order:
Polyporales
Family:
Meruliaceae
Records on NatureSpot:
20
First record:
13/09/2010 (Watson, Ashley)
Last record:
29/10/2023 (N, Matt)

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  • Graham Calow
    Burbage Common and Woods
    23 September 2011
  • Alan Semper
    Melton Country Park
    29 August 2014
  • Frank Bedford
    Ashby Hicks Lodge
    13 September 2022
  • Graham Calow
    Burbage Common and Woods
    23 September 2011
  • mttnx
    Great Merrible Wood
    25 September 2022
  • Graham Calow
    Burbage Common and Woods
    23 September 2011
  • David Nicholls
    Battram Wood
    17 October 2015
  • Catherine Horrell
    Southwood
    01 October 2022
  • mttnx
    Great Merrible Wood
    23 October 2022
  • mttnx
    Great Merrible Wood
    23 October 2022
  • Lostash
    Leicester Botanical Gardens
    19 October 2014
  • Lostash
    Blaby Bypass
    25 October 2015