Trametes cinnabarina
The cinnabar polypore, better known as Pycnoporus cinnabarinus, forms bright orange-red brackets on dead, sun-exposed hardwood branches and logs across the temperate Northern Hemisphere. It is a white-rot fungus widely grown in laboratories for its laccase enzyme and red pigments.
Where it grows wild
Dead, usually sun-exposed branches, logs and stumps of broadleaf trees such as cherry, birch, oak and beech, in woodland edges, clearings and hedges.
Recorded from sea level to 1,500 m, median 530 m.
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