16 September 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Common Name Willow Bracket Fruiting Body Bracket shaped, upper surface rusty brown, becoming grey then black with age, margin rounded, velvety, yellow brown when growing, underside velvety, yellow brown when growing, pores 4-6 per mm, to about 30 cm wide Flesh Rust, tough Smell Strongly fungal Taste Bitter or acidic Season Perennial, sporulating spring to autumn Distribution Infrequent Habitat On living and dead wood from deciduous trees, favouring willow Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores broadly ellipsoidal (4.5-6.5) x (4-5) µm2. Basidia clavate, four spored. Hyphal system dimitic, generative hyphae without clamps, skeletal hyphae brown. Hymenial setae tooth shaped, to about 20 µm long. Edibility Inedible Notes Perennial 
16 September 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
16 September 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 16 September 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Hymenial hyphae and seta in Congo Red solution viewed with a x40 objective. 16 September 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
On a willow tree. 21 February 2009 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |