10 October 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright . Fruiting Body Bracket shaped, upper surface felty, whitish, pinkish or apricot coloured, pores whitish to straw coloured, 1-2 per mm, tubes to 15mm, to 20 cm across Flesh Soft, pinkish, zoned Smell Sweetish, pleasant Taste Mild Season Autumn Distribution Rarely recorded Habitat On living and dead wood from deciduous trees, most often reported on beech Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal to subspherical (6-8.5) x (4.5-6.5) µm2. Hyphal system monomitic. Clamp connections present. Edibility Unknown 
10 October 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright . 
The underside showing the pores. 10 October 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright . 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 10 October 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright . 
Hyphae with clamp connections in Congo Red viewed with a x40 objective. 10 October 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Basidia in Congo Red viewed with a x40 objective. 10 October 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |