Rogers Mushrooms - Peniophora lycii Mushroom


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Peniophora lycii. Click a photo to enlarge it. back to list

synonyms: Blaugrauer Rindenpilz

Ref No: 8511
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location: Europe

edibility: Inedible

fungus colour: Violet or purple

normal size: Less than 5cm

cap type: Other

stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent

spore colour: Pink

habitat: Grows on wood

Peniophora lycii (Pers.) Höhn. & Litsch Blaugrauer Rindenpilz. Fruit body resupinate, forming thin irregular patches on the undersides of branches, blue-grey with a violaceous tint. Cystidia club-shaped conspicuously encrusted in crystalline material and often becoming buried as the hymenium thickens. Dendrophyses hyaline, branched, encrusted with crystalline material. Spores pink, cylindric or somewhat curved, 9–13 x 3.5–5um. Habitat on dead twigs and sticks of many deciduous trees. Season all year. Very common. Not edible. Found In Europe.

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