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| synonyms: Cowberry Redleaf |
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| location: North America, Europe |
| edibility: Inedible |
| fungus colour: White to cream, Red or redish or pink |
| normal size: 5-15cm |
| cap type: Other |
| stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent |
| spore colour: White, cream or yellowish |
| habitat: Grows on plant material/manure |
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Exobasidium vaccinii (Fuckel) Woron. Cowberry Redleaf. Fruit body forming a whitish of pinkish powdery spore-bearing layer on gall-like, thickened, distorted leaves and shoots of members of the Ericaceae. Spores white, elongate, 10–20 x 2.5–5ì, becoming 3-septate at maturity. Habitat leaves and young shoots or flowers of certain members of the Ericaceae; rhododendron, pot-grown azaleas, etc. (shown here on Vaccinium). Season late spring to autumn. Uncommon. Not edible. Found In Europe and probably north America. |
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