22 October 2015 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Bracket shaped, usually growing in tiers, broadly attached to the substrate, upper surface felty, becoming smooth with age, reddish brown to yellow brown to dark brown, sometimes with reddish drops, margin rounded, lower surface whitish, grey brown with age, 2 to 4 pores per mm, to about 10 cm across Flesh Tough, dark brown Smell Indistinct Taste Bitter Season All year Distribution Common Habitat On deciduous trees, favouring alder Spore Print Yellowish Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal to sub-spherical, smooth (5-7) x (3.5-4.5) µm2. Hymenial setae thick walled, dark, thorn shaped to hook shaped. Edibility Inedible Notes This species is rather variable but easily recognised by microscopy 
22 October 2015 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
22 October 2015 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Setae in Congo red viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 22 October 2015 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Hymenial setae in Congo red viewed with a x40 objective. 22 October 2015 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
17 October 2009 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
17 October 2009 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |