On a rotten beech log. 16 October 2022 Bushy Leaze Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Resupinate, poroid, pale to bright orange, becoming dark red with age and on bruising, about 6 to 8 pores per mm, margin pale, woolly Flesh Very soft, turning deep purple in KOH solution Smell Indistinct Season Autumn to spring Distribution Very rarely recorded, infrequent in East Hampshire Habitat On dead wood, especially beech Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores cylindrical and sausage shaped, smooth, hyaline (4-5) x (1-1.5) µm2. Hyphal system monomitic, hyphae embedded in oily matter, some hyphae lightly encrusted, clamps absent. Cystidia not present. Basidia cylindrical to club shaped with 4 spores. Edibility Inedible Notes The photos from Bushy Leaze Wood show the same specimen over several years. There have been a handful of British collections of a poroid matching the collection shown here which were originally recorded as Ceriporia spissa, a North American species. DNA analysis has shown this to be a new and as yet undescribed species. 
On a rotten beech log. 21 February 2023 Thedden Copse, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Congo Red solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 21 February 2023 Thedden Copse, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
7 July 2021 Bushy Leaze Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
19 November 2020 Bushy Leaze Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
A crop from the previous image. 19 November 2020 Bushy Leaze Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
After applying a drop of KOH solution. 19 November 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 19 November 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Hyphae in Congo Red solution viewed with a x40 objective. 19 November 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |