Junghuhnia nitida

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Junghuhnia nitida

26 February 2023 Crab Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin.

Fruiting Body

Resupinate, poroid, orange, pink to pinkish brown, margin white, pores irregular, 5 to 7 pores per mm, about 2 mm thick, forming patches several cm across

Flesh

Soft, pale

Smell

Faint, indistinct

Taste

Unknown

Season

All year

Distribution

Infrequent

Habitat

On rotten wood from deciduous trees

Spore Print

White

Microscopic Features

Spores ellipsoidal, smooth, with drops (3.5-4.5) x (2-2.5) µm2. Cystidia thick walled, cylindrical to club shaped, end encrusted. Hyphal system dimitic. Generative hyphae septate, with clamps.

Edibility

Inedible

Junghuhnia nitida

Spores in Congo Red solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 26 February 2023 Crab Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin.

Junghuhnia nitida

On a very rotten hazel branch. 11 November 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin.

Junghuhnia nitida

Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 11 November 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin.

Junghuhnia nitida

Spores in Congo Red solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 11 November 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin.

Junghuhnia nitida

Skeletocystidia in Congo Red solution viewed with a 40X objective. 11 November 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin.