7 November 2010 Minley, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Fan to top shaped, upper surface whitish with pale brown zoning, margin often pinkish, felty, rounded when young, becoming acute with age, underside whitish with a greenish tint, pores irregular, 4 to 6 per mm, to about 15 cm across Smell Indistinct Taste Bitter Season Autumn Distribution Rarely recorded Habitat On dead conifer stumps Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores subcylindrical to oblong, smooth, hyaline (4-5) x (2-2.5) µm2. Hyphal system monomitic, clamps present. Cystidia absent. Edibility Inedible 
13 November 2021 Minley, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
13 November 2021 Minley, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 13 November 2021 Minley, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |