Meripilus

Notes

Forming large fleshy poroid fruiting bodies, mostly developing at ground level at the base of affected trees.
New Zealand has a single, introduced species.

 

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Meripilus giganteus

Forming multiple, large (to 50 cm diam.), yellow-brown fruiting bodies connected at their base, usually at the base of affected trees. Only recorded to date in urban Christchurch and there on copper beech (Fagus sylvatica) and a nearby Rhodo