14 November 2022 Church of Saint James, Upper Wield, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Resupinate, surface lumpy, granular when viewed with a hand lens, white when young, then cream, greyish, brownish, or yellowish, margin white, woolly Season All year Distribution Common Habitat Usually on rotten wood from deciduous trees and shrubs. Very rarely on rotten wood from conifers. Microscopic Features Spores sub-globose, angular, smooth, with a distinct apiculas, inamyloid, (5-6) µm. Basidia short cylindrical, 4 spored. Cystidia absent. Hyphal system monomitic, septa with clamps. Edibility Inedible 
A crop from the previous image. 14 November 2022 Church of Saint James, Upper Wield, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Congo Red solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 14 November 2022 Church of Saint James, Upper Wield, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Lactophenol Cotton Blue viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 14 November 2022 Church of Saint James, Upper Wield, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |