16 April 2023 Crab Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Resupinate, thin, smooth or lumpy, colour variable, whitish, greyish, pinkish, violaceous, reddish brown or blue Flesh Gelatinous, firm Smell Indistinct Season All year Distribution Uncommon Habitat On dead wood from deciduous trees Microscopic Features Spores suballantoid, smooth, containing one or two oil drops (5-6) x (2-2.5) µm2. Basidia slender, club shaped, four spored. Leptocystidia thin walled, cylindrical, slender, tapered at the apex. Hyphal system monomitic, clamps present. Edibility Of no culinary value Notes The April 2023 collection was found by Paul Hugill and subsequently identified by DNA sequencing carried out by Eric Janke in association with the BMS 
16 April 2023 Crab Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Congo Red solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 16 April 2023 Crab Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Identified by Eric Janke, confirmed by Leif Goodwin. 1 October 2023 Franchises Wood, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Congo Red solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 1 October 2023 Franchises Wood, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |