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Flammulina velutipes
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Morphology: Analysis of many fresh collections and herbarium specimens yielded a core of taxonomic characters through which to diagnose F. velutipes. Pileipellis structure was composed of an ixotrichodermium of ramifying filamentous to strangulate hyphal tips with interspersed fusoid-lanceolate pileicystidia. Basidiospores were quite variable, but in "typical" material were 6-9.5 X 3-4 m m. Pileus color ranged from almost white (in var. lactea) to the usual leather colored to russet shades; stipe texture was invariably minutely velutinous, caused by a superficial layer of ventricose-lanceolate caulocystidia. Pleuro- and cheilocystidia were prominent, but not significantly different from those of other taxa within the genus. Basidiomata were always found on wood, usually away from soil (i.e. from standing trunks or branches).
Habit: Fruiting on exposed branches and trunks of hardwood trees (often on Fagus in Europe; Acer and other genera in North America).
Geographic range: Known chiefly from the Northern Hemisphere in North America, Europe and eastern Asia. Also found in temperate South America, New Zealand and southern Australia, probably from introduction by human intervention.
from http://fp.bio.utk.edu/Mycology/ |
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Its interesting to see the fight the fungi are having to escape the wood. Nice coloure maybe a little more DOF.
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