On a beech log. 15 January 2022 Near Alton, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Resupinate, thin, smooth to lumpy, cream to pale yellowish, sometimes with an orange or pink hue, margin white to greyish Flesh Soft, waxy, pale yellowish Smell Indistinct Season All year Distribution Common Habitat On dead wood from deciduous trees, especially beech and hazel Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores sub-cylindrical to ellipsoidal, thin walled, warty, amyloid (5-6) x (2.5-3) µm2. Basidia clavate 4 spored, with a basal clamp. Hyphal system monomitic, with clamps, 2-3 µm wide. Gloeocystidia numerous, cylindrical, tapered, somewhat irregular. Edibility Inedible 
On a beech log. 15 January 2022 Near Alton, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 15 January 2022 Near Alton, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Gloeocystidia in Congo Red solution viewed with a x40 objective. 15 January 2022 Near Alton, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
On a burnt beech log. 9 January 2022 Cheriton Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
On a burnt beech log. 9 January 2022 Cheriton Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 9 January 2022 Cheriton Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Congo Red solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 9 January 2022 Cheriton Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Basidium in Congo Red solution viewed with a x40 objective. 9 January 2022 Cheriton Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Gloeocystidia in Congo Red solution viewed with a x40 objective. 1 January 2022 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
17 December 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 17 December 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Gloeocystidium in Melzer's solution viewed with a x40 objective. 17 December 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Gloeocystidia in Melzer's solution viewed with a x40 objective. 17 December 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |