29 October 2013 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Kidney shaped to tongue shaped, surface smooth, whitish, then pale cinnamon, to about 5 cm wide Gills Decurrent, crowded, whitish then pale cinnamon Stem Short, lateral, concolorous with the cap, slightly woolly Flesh Thin, whitish Smell Indistinct Taste Indistinct Season Autumn Distribution Infrequent Habitat On dead wood from deciduous trees, favouring beech Spore Print Cinnamon brown Microscopic Features Spores subspherical, finely warty (4.5-6) µm. Gill edge cystidia finger shaped to club shaped. Edibility Inedible Notes This species could be confused with several species including C. mollis and C. autochthonus 
29 October 2013 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
29 October 2013 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
15 September 2010 West Sussex. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
15 September 2010 West Sussex. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 29 October 2013 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |