Beefsteak fungus
Fistulina hepatica
Edible, but easily confused with poisonous lookalikes.
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At a glance
- Scientific name
- Fistulina hepatica
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Agaricales
- Family
- Fistulinaceae
- Under the cap
- Pores
- Cap
- Bracket
- Stem
- Bare
- Lives by
- Parasite
- Season
- Summer, Autumn
- Habitat
- Living trees
- Spore print
- Pink
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- It oozes a red juice and looks like a slab of raw meat, which gave it its name.
- On oak it stains the wood a deep brown, creating the prized timber known as brown oak.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q631566 · All fungi · All entries