Cinnabar Polypore

(Trametes cinnabarina)

Conservation Status
Cinnabar Polypore
  IUCN Red List

not listed

     
  NatureServe

NNR - Unranked

     
  Minnesota

not listed

     
           
           
           
 
Description
 
 

Cinnabar Polypore is an easily recognized bracket fungus. It is widespread and common in eastern North America but not common in Minnesota. It is found from spring to fall, alone or in groups, on dead hardwood. It is rarely found on conifers. It is saprobic, causing white rot on fallen logs.

The fruiting body is a stalkless, shelf-like bracket. The bracket is nearly circular to fan-shaped or kidney-shaped, ¾ to 5 in diameter, and up to ¾ thick. When young, it is bright reddish-orange or cinnabar-red, the flesh is tough, and the upper surface is smooth and covered with fine to suede-like hairs. As it ages, the color fades to dull orange, the flesh becomes rigid, and the upper surface becomes rough and nearly hairless.

The underside is bright reddish-orange or cinnabar-red. It is similar to upperside color when fresh, but it does not fade with age. There are 2 to 4 pores per 1 32 (1 millimeter).

The flesh is reddish to yellowish-red. It is too tough to be edible.

The spore print is white.

 
     
 

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Habitat and Hosts
 
 

Deciduous and mixed forests

 
     
 
Ecology
 
 

Season

 
 

Spring through fall

 
     
 
Distribution
 
 

Distribution Map

 

Sources

4, 7, 24, 26, 29, 30, 77.

 
  5/3/2019      
         
 

Occurrence

 
 

Widespread but not common

 
         
 
Taxonomy
 
  Kingdom Fungi (fungi)  
  Subkingdom Dikarya  
  Division Basidiomycota (club fungi)  
  Subdivision Agaricomycotina (jelly fungi, yeasts, and mushrooms)  
  Class Agaricomycetes (mushroom-forming fungi)  
  Subclass Agaricomycetidae  
  Order Polyporales (shelf fungi)  
  Family Polyporaceae (bracket fungi)  
  Genus Trametes  
       
 

In a molecular DNA study published in 2011, the authors noted that “Pycnoporus is separated from Trametes solely on the basis of the orange-red colors of the basidiocarps.” They concluded that “...all members of the trametoid clade should be classified under one single generic name (Trametes).” Pycnoporus cinnabarinus became Trametes cinnabarina. This reclassification has not been universally accepted.

 
       
 

Synonyms

 
 

Boletus cinnabarinus

Polyporus cinnabarinus

Pycnoporus cinnabarinus

Trametes cinnabarina

 
       
 

Common Names

 
 

Cinnabar Polypore

Northern Cinnabar Polypore

 
       

 

 

 

 

 

Glossary

Saprobic

Obtaining its nutrients from non-living organic matter, such as decaying plant or animal matter.

       
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  Cinnabar-red Polypore, wild mushroom
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Published on Sep 30, 2012

Tough, stalkless cap with cinnabar-to orange-red pores

   
       
  Trametes cinnabarina - A Red Polypore Bracket Fungi
The Roaming Gnome...Glenn Munro! VRCM/SkyWarn
 
   
 
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Published on Feb 14, 2016

Red polypore bracket fungi - Ozarks region, Central Missouri - Winter. Edible, just not 5 star. Starts white grows in rosette form....and turns red. The color red is another fungi that grows on this fungus after it blanches white. Not very tasty, edibility n/a. Can give you a headache, nausea, irritate the bowels and dehydrate you....leaving you feeling like a hang over.

   
       
  Trametes cinnabarina + mysterious wood fungi
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Published on Nov 25, 2017

Trametes cinnabarina + mysterious wood fungi
Not too sure what the wood fungi with the white outer layer is.

   
       
  Trametes cinnabarina - CRVENI RUPIČAR
Nikola Lačković
 
   
 
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Published on May 14, 2017

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