Sanguinoderma

Sanguinoderma is a genus of polypore fungi within the family Ganodermataceae and order Polyporales. It is identified by its characteristic of changing to a blood-red colour when its pore surfaces are bruised or damaged. Macrofungi play a crucial and essential role in forest ecosystem processes, contributing significantly to ecological balance and energy flow. They display a wide variety of morphological forms and features in their basidiomata and basidiospores, and include groups such as polypores, corticioid fungi and hydnoid fungi within the wider category of aphyllophoroid fungi. The Sanguinoderma genus is considered a part of this macrofungal group....read more on Wikipedia.