24 September 2022 Cadmans Pool, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Resupinate, very thin, pores irregular, whitish to cream, about 2 to 4 pores per mm Flesh Soft, whitish Smell Indistinct Taste Unknown Season All year Distribution Common Habitat On dead wood from deciduous trees Microscopic Features Spores cylindrical to sausage shaped, containing oil drops, smooth, hyaline (7-9.5) x (2.5-3.5) µm2. Hyphal system monomitic, some hyphae encrusted, simple septate. Cystidia not present. Basidia club shaped with 4 spores. Edibility Inedible 
24 September 2022 Cadmans Pool, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
A crop from the previous image. 24 September 2022 Cadmans Pool, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
24 September 2022 Cadmans Pool, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Congo Red solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 24 September 2022 Cadmans Pool, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Hyphae in Congo Red solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 24 September 2022 Cadmans Pool, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |