Wood Cauliflower - Sparassis crispa
Sparassis crispa can be recognised by its distinctive, whitish to pale buff, much-lobed fruitbodies, which have been considered to resemble a cauliflower.
Parasitic on roots of conifers, especially pines, fruiting at the base of the trunk, or sometimes on old stumps, and causing a cubical brown rot.
Summer and autumn.
Parasitic on roots of conifers.
Widespread but rather local in Britain.
Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland.
AJ Cann
The Outwoods
07 September 2014
Graham Fisher
Hallgate Hill Spinney
21 October 2021
David Robinson
Near Swithland Woods
27 October 2021
Wood Cauliflower
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Species profile
- Common names
- Wood Cauliflower, Cauliflower Fungus
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Polyporales
- Family:
- Sparassidaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 8
- First record:
- 07/09/2014 (Cann, Alan)
- Last record:
- 30/10/2023 (Bell, Melinda)
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