30 November 2014 Brookwood, Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Coral like, multiple branches growing from a central stem, white or off white, to about 10 cm high Flesh Whitish, soft Smell Aniseed Distribution Rare Habitat On soil with conifers, less often with deciduous trees Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal, warty (5-7) x (3-4) µm2. Hyphae with clamp connections. Basidia four spored. Edibility Unknown 
30 November 2014 Brookwood, Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective and x2.5 projection eyepiece. 30 November 2014 Brookwood, Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Clamp connection. 30 November 2014 Brookwood, Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
An inflated hypha at a septum. 30 November 2014 Brookwood, Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |