Resupinatus applicatus the Smoked Oysterling

e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,376 Major grins
edited November 9, 2016 in Holy Macro
This species has a cap and gills, like the majority of other mushrooms, but no proper stem. (It has a tiny “pseudostem”). I found this colony on the underside of a rotten, fallen branch in mixed (mostly deciduous) woodland.

There are many mushrooms which grow on rotting wood. Normally, they grow straight, vertically, upwards from the top of a tree stump or grow out a little way sideways from the side of the wood and then continue vertically. These just grew out of the underside of the branch, pointing their gills downwards, the common goal of all gill fungi. The caps are about finger nail size.

Synonyms include Acanthocystis applicatus and it has been included in Pleurotus.

Olympus EM-1, Olympus 4/3 Digital 50 f2 macro ED at f16 triple flash, hand-held.

Harold

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