Punctularia strigosozonata is a fungus species of the genus Punctularia. It was originally described in 1832 by Lewis David de Schweinitz as a member of genus Merulius. Patrick Talbot transferred it to genus Punctularia in 1958. Punctularia strigosozonata produces the antibiotic phlebiarubrone.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Tree Bacon being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Hydnoporia tabacina
- Laxitextum bicolor
- Stereum illudens
- Hymenochaete rubiginosa
- Porostereum spadiceum
- Hymenochaete cyclolamellata
Classification
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Basidiomycota
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Corticiales
- Family
- Corticiaceae
- Genus
- Punctularia
- Species
- Punctularia strigosozonata
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