[3] The flesh has a hard woody texture that extends about five centimetres from the substrate with pores that change in colour from off white to dark brown depending on age.

[5] The upper surface attached to the substrate can be hairy[5] and has bumps and groves that look like channels[3] Hexagonia vesparia has it greatest known distribution in Victoria, NSW and Perth, and sparingly in the Northern Territory, South Australia and Queensland.

[7] Wasp nest polypore are found on both branches and trunks of living trees and dead logs in rainforest and wet sclerophyll forest, however they have been recorded in more semi arid areas of Eucalypt Mallee Woodland.

Basidiomycota reproduce sexually and for germination to occur on the substrate, haploid spores of two different mating strains fuse (karyogamy),to produce dikaryotic a diploid zygote.

[1] and other states in Australia have not listed any conservation status, however disturbances such as too frequent fire regimes and land clearing could cause a decline in this species because of the lose of their host.