10 October 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Common Name Earth Fan Fruiting Body Multiple fan shaped lobes, usually fused together, fibrous, reddish brown to dark brown, margin paler, to about 6cm across Flesh Brown, tough, fibrous Smell Earthy Taste Indistinct Season Late Summer to early winter Distribution Common Habitat On soil and debris in deciduous and coniferous woods, on heaths and on moors Spore Print Purple-brown Microscopic Features Spores irregular, knobbly-warty (8-9) x (5-7) µm2 Edibility Not edible 
1 November 2007 Bedfordshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
24 October 2007 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |