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.