Created: 2008-06-05 12:30:57

By: Tom Volk (TomVolk)

Summary: Hard to tell without microscope

This is interesting and probably distinctive under the scope. The white part is called the subiculum, which is equivalent to the “flesh” of a mushroom or the “context” of a polypore— it’s the sterile area of hyphae that support the hymenium that bears basidia. In this case the hymenium is orange/brown in color. It’s possibly a Botryobasidium, but one look under the scope would tell for sure. :)