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Vuilleminia comedens.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Rindensprenger, Waxy Crust
Vuilleminia comedens Mushroom
Ref No: 9659
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Vuilleminia comedens2 Mushroom
Ref No: 9660
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location: Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Violet or purple, Grey to beige
normal size: 5-15cm
stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent
flesh: Mushroom slimy or sticky
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on wood

Vuilleminia comedens (Nees) Maire syn. Corticium comedens (Nees) Fr. Rindensprenger Waxy Crust. Fruit body resupinate, forming firm–gelatinous patches 1–13cm across below the bark, dingy lilac to pale flesh-coloured, slightly viscid and translucent when moist. Spores white, cylindric to sausage-shaped, 18–20 x 5–6um. Habitat beneath the bark on dead, often still attached, branches of deciduous trees. Season all year. Common but inconspicuous; most easily found by observing the characteristically rolled-back bark of the host. Not edible. Found In Europe.

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