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Fungi Partly documented

Fistulina spiculifera

Australia's common beefsteak fungus, a red, fleshy bracket on living eucalypts and other hardwoods, recorded across the south-east of the continent. It fruits mainly in the cool, moist months; cultivation is undocumented.

Fistulina spiculifera
Photo: Cowirrie, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Day Cool-growingTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Very humid airBand in Plantistry
Light Bright, filtered lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
No rest period

Where it grows wild

Brackets on trunks and wounds of living and dead hardwoods, mostly eucalypts, in open forest and woodland, causing a brown rot.

Few records carry an elevation.

Australia

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✓ Substrate and airflow
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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC0 licence, unmodified.