17 October 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Synonymns Oligoporus caesius Common Name Blue Cheese Fungus Fruiting Body Bracket shaped, laterally attached to the substrate, upper surface finely felty, white then grey blue, underside white then grey blue, 3 to 5 pores per mm, to about 6 cm across Season All year Distribution Frequent Habitat On dead wood from coniferous trees Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores sausage shaped, smooth (4-5) x (1-1.5) µm2 Edibility Inedible 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 17 October 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
18 September 2010 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |