Thursday
Dec132012
Crust Fungus
Thu 2012-12-13
Waxy crust fungus, Vuilleminia comedens, growing on an oak twig (Quercus sp). Note that it grows under the bark.
I prepared a slide of the spores using the same technique I used for Peniophora quercina. The above image (x600) shows them to be bent sausage-shaped and about twice as large as those of P. quercina. This is consistent with the 'cylindric to sausage-shaped, 18–20 x 5–6um' that Roger's Mushrooms gives for V. comedens.
Specimen collected in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-12-09.
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