Tyromyces pulcherrimus

Tyromyces pulcherrimus, commonly known as the strawberry bracket, is a species of poroid fungus in the family Polyporaceae.

The fungus is found natively in Australia and New Zealand, where it causes a white rot in living and dead logs of southern beech and eucalyptus.

The fungus was first described in 1922 by English-born Australian dentist and botanist Leonard Rodway, who called it Polyporus pulcherrimus.

Curtis Gates Lloyd, an American mycologist to whom Rodway had sent a specimen for examination, suggested a similarity to Albatrellus confluens.

The hyphae in the context are arranged in a parallel fashion, and strongly agglutinated to form a densely packed tissue.

[4] Tyromyces pulcherrimus is a white rot fungus that grows on the exposed heartwood of several tree species.

Fruit body photographed on Nothofagus cunninghamii in the Upper Florentine Valley , Tasmania