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Orange Pore Fungus

 

March 9, 2026, 2pm

Nualolo Cliff Trail, Koke’e State Park, Kauai, Hawaii, USA

Sony A1 tripod

100 mm Macro (AF focus-stacked)

ISO 100, f5.6, 1/100th

100 images, Spaced @4?

 

Favolaschia calocera.  An aggressive invasive, wood-rotting saprotrophic fungus in Hawaii named the orange pore fungus for the enlarged pores on the underside. Records show its introduction to the islands from Madagascar by 2009. It thrives in disturbed habitats which was certainly present courtesy of extensive understory rooting by Kauai’s wild bore population.