{"id":3013,"date":"2013-06-15T14:08:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T06:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=3013"},"modified":"2013-06-17T14:19:07","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T06:19:07","slug":"scarlet-bracket-fungus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/15\/scarlet-bracket-fungus\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarlet Bracket Fungus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130615-041.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3030\" alt=\"20130615 041\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130615-041-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130615-041-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130615-041.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The scarlet bracket fungus or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elfram.com\/fungi\/fungi_r\/pycnococc_a.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Pycnoporus coccineus<\/em><\/a>\u00a0is apparently really common, but so far I have only found 3 small specimen on one stick. \u00a0This\u00a0polypore\u00a0is described as tough but pliable and often incorporates twigs and other matter into its structure as it expands, like this one has. \u00a0The top is a paler orange yellow, but is a lovely vivid red underneath. \u00a0The colour will fade over time with some caps even bleaching to white if exposed to sunlight, though the underside should retain some colour. \u00a0The pores are clearly visible on the underside. \u00a0It is considered too tough to be considered edible, but a type of Pycnoprous was used by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anbg.gov.au\/fungi\/aboriginal.html\" target=\"_blank\">Aboriginal<\/a>\u00a0people where it was<em>\u00a0&#8220;sucked to cure sore mouths&#8221; or rubbed inside the mouths of babies with oral thrush, rubbed on sore lips. It has also been used as a teething ring.<a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130615-020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3031\" alt=\"20130615 020\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130615-020-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130615-020-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130615-020.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/em>\u00a0To back up this claim,\u00a0<em>Two antibiotic compounds have been found in\u00a0Pycnoporus coccineus.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scarlet bracket fungus or Pycnoporus coccineus\u00a0is apparently really common, but so far I have only found 3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fungi","category-property","category-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130615-041.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3013"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3064,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions\/3064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}