29 December Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Crust like, surface wrinkled, finely hairy when young, then smooth, greyish to brown, margin whitish, bruising bright red, to about 1mm thick Flesh Firm, ochraceous, thin Smell Indistinct Taste Indistinct Season All year Distribution Very common Habitat On dead wood from coniferous trees including spruce, larch and pine Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores cylindrical, smooth, hyaline, amyloid (8-10) x (2.5-3.5) µm2. Basidia cylindrical, 4-spored. Hyphal system dimitic. Clamp connections absent. Pseudocystidia cylindrical, tips blunt to acute. Acanthocystidia cylindical, tips conical and decorated with spines. Edibility Inedible 
29 December Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
29 December Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 29 December Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |