Preliminary ecological investigation of four wood-inhabiting fungi of conservation concern - oak polypore Piptoporus quercinus (=Buglossoporus pulvinus) and the tooth fungi Hericium/Creolophus spp (ENRR616)

A PhD project, two undergraduate final year research projects and a short molecular investigation have been carried out over a three year period at Cardiff University. The research has been a preliminary ecological investigation into four wood-inhabiting fungi, including three British tooth fungi – tiered tooth Creolophus (=Hericium) cirrhatus, coral tooth H. coralloides and bearded tooth Hericium erinaceum, and the oak polypore Piptoporus quercinus (=Buglossoporus pulvinus).