Laetiporus

Notes

Highly distinctive genus in New Zealand with single species, forming large annual fruiting bodies, on living beech.

 

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Laetiporus portentosus

The annual fruiting body typically develops high up on trunk of living beech trees, thick and mostly hoof-shaped, light for size (to 35 cm across, to 15 cm thick), pale brown to yellow-brown, with lower surface poroid. Upper surface smooth and water r