21 October 2025 Hinton Ampner, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Synonymns Creopus gelatinosus Fruiting Body Cusion shaped, irregular, whitish, then pale yellow, with dark spots which become green with age, to about 3 mm across Flesh Hard when immature, becoming gelatinous Smell None Taste Unknown Season All year but more often recorded in autumn Distribution Infrequent Habitat In dense clusters on rotten wood Microscopic Features Sub-spherical to ellipsoidal, warty (5-7) x (4-4.5) µm2. Asci 16 spored. Edibility Unknown, but too small to be worthwhile Notes I am grateful to Dr. Brian Spooner, of Kew, for identifying the specimens collected in 2009. 
A crop from the previous image. 21 October 2025 Hinton Ampner, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
19 July 2009 West Sussex. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
21 October 2010 West Sussex. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
An ascus and spores viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 25 July 2009 West Sussex. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |