On beech. 10 October 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Common Name Wet rot Fruiting Body Forming a layer on the substrate, surface rough, initially thin, smooth and yellow, becoming thicker, lumpy and olivaceous brown with age, margin white and fibrillose, forming large patches Flesh Soft, thin, white to brown Smell Indistinct Taste Unknown Season All year Distribution Common Habitat On damp rotten wood Spore Print Olive brown Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal, smooth, cyanophilic (10-16) x (6-10) µm2. Basidia clavate, four spored. Hyphal system monomitic, clamps sometimes present in basal hyphae. Cystidia absent. Hyphoid basidioles present. Edibility Inedible Notes This fungus causes wet rot in damp houses, and outbuildings 
10 October 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 10 October 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
A hypha with multiple clamps in Congo Red solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 10 October 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Basidium in Congo Red solution viewed with a 40X objective. 10 October 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Basidioles in Congo Red solution viewed with a 40X objective. 10 October 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |