23 December 2021 Bramdean Common, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Resupinate, forming a layer on the substrate, surface wrinkled, white when young, then cream and finally brownish, margin woolly, white and often peeling away from the substrate Flesh Whitish, tough Smell Indistinct Season All year Distribution Very common Habitat On dead wood, usually from deciduous trees and shrubs, rarely from conifers Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores cylindrical, smooth, inamyloid (5-7) x (2.5-3.5) µm2. Basidia club shaped, 4 spored. Cystidia absent. Hyphal system monomitic. Edibility Inedible 
A close up of the wrinkled hymenium and the woolly margin. 23 December 2021 Bramdean Common, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 23 December 2021 Bramdean Common, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |