Trametes coccinea

Scarlet bracket

The scarlet bracket, long known as Pycnoporus coccineus, forms thin, bright orange-red brackets on dead wood across Australia, New Zealand and East Asia. It is a white-rot decayer that grows readily in culture and is studied for enzymes that break down wood, including softwood.

Trametes coccinea — Photo: This image was created by user Ian Dodd (kk) (www.kundabungkid.com) Australia (kundabungkid) at Mushroom Observer, a source for mycological images.You can contact this user here., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

At home, aim for

Day IntermediateTargets in Plantistry

Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry

Humidity Humid airBand in Plantistry

Light Bright, filtered lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry

No rest period

Where it grows wild

On dead branches, logs and stumps of hardwoods and sometimes softwoods, often on sun-exposed wood in open woodland, gardens and forest edges.

Recorded at 20–1443 m, median 300 m.

AustraliaNew ZealandEastern AsiaPacific Islands

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates

✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it

✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light

✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it

✓ Substrate and airflow

✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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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 CC BY-SA 3.0 licence, unmodified.