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Powderpuff bracket
Postia ptychogaster
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About
Postia ptychogaster, commonly known as the powderpuff bracket, is a species of fungus in the family Fomitopsidaceae. The fungus, which is found in Europe and North America, resembles a powdery cushion that fruits on stumps and logs of rotting conifer wood. In this stage of its life cycle, the "cushion" is a mass of chlamydospores.
- Family
- Dacryobolaceae
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- Name
- Postia ptychogaster
- Slug
- postia-ptychogaster
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Family
- Dacryobolaceae
- Genus
- Postia
- Species
- ptychogaster
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 28
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