On the trunk of a fallen beech tree. 29 October 2022 New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Common Name Orange ping pong bat Cap Kidney shaped to semi-circular, convex to flattened, upper surface decorated with an indented net like pattern, bright orange, to about 2 cm across Pores Large, angular, concolorous with the cap Stem Eccentric, concolorous with the cap Smell Indistinct Season Most often recorded in late summer and autumn Distribution Rarely recorded Habitat In clusters on dead wood from deciduous trees, especially beech, and one record on bamboo Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal to broadly ellipsoidal, hyaline, smooth, with one or more drops (10-13.5) x (6-8) µm2. Edibility Unknown Notes First recorded in Britain in 2012, in Cornwall, by early 2025 the species had spread as far as South Hampshire and Warwickshire in England and Pembrokeshire and Glamorganshire in Wales 
A crop from the previous image. 29 October 2022 New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
On the trunk of a fallen beech tree. 29 October 2022 New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
15 September 2025 Near Lyndhurst, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
15 September 2025 Near Lyndhurst, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |