14 December 2008 Buckinghamshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Multiple brain like lobes, narrowly attached to the substrate, shiny, smooth with widely separated warts, dark brown to black, to about 5 cm across Flesh Gelatinous, dark brown to black Smell Indistinct Taste Indistinct Season All year Distribution Common Habitat On dead wood of deciduous trees, rarely on oak, usually in fused groups forming a gelatinous mat Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores sausage shaped or cylindrical, smooth (12-15) x (4-5) µm2 Edibility Inedible 
14 December 2008 Buckinghamshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 14 December 2008 Buckinghamshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |