17 January 2009 West Sussex. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Synonymns Exidia truncata Fruiting Body Top or disk shaped, underside densely covered with small warts, upper surface smooth with sparse warts, dark brown, to about 6 cm across Flesh Gelatinous, dark brown Smell Indistinct Taste Indistinct Season All year Distribution Common Habitat On dead deciduous wood, favouring oak Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores sausage shaped or cylindrical, smooth (14-19) x (4.5-5.5) µm2 Edibility Inedible Notes Take care not to confuse with Auricularia auricula-judae and Tremella foliacea 
17 January 2009 West Sussex. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
17 January 2009 West Sussex. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Note the unusual growths. According to Dr. B.M.Spooner of Kew, these are almost certainly Heteromycophaga glandulosae, a parasitic fungus. 17 January 2009 West Sussex. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores viewed with a x100 immerson objective. 20 December 2008 West Sussex. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |