On a fallen Beech trunk. 7 March 2009 Noar HIll, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Synonymns Scytinostroma portentosum Fruiting Body Thin, smooth or rough, cream, grey brown or reddish brown, translucent when very damp, forming large mats on the substrate that may extend over several meters Flesh Thin, pale brown Smell Very strong, of moth balls or coal tar Taste Unknown Season All year Distribution Rarely recorded Habitat On dead wood from deciduous trees, favouring ash, but also beech and willow Microscopic Features Spores sub-spherical with a prominent germ pore, smooth (5-6) µm Edibility Unknown but of no culinary interest Notes This fungus was first recorded in England in 1989 in Norfolk. 
On a fallen Beech trunk. 1 January 2009 Noar Hill, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
On beech. 11 November 2022 Noar Hill, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
On beech. 11 November 2022 Noar Hill, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 11 November 2022 Noar Hill, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |