Oak Pin

Oak Pin - Cudoniella acicularis

Description

A small long-stemmed slightly downy white fungus with a convex hymenium (fertile surface) and thick stalk, usuallly in clusters on mossy oak stumps.  With age it becomes brownish and spotted with black

Identification difficulty
Recording advice

Photograph in habitat; note substrate and associated tree species.  

Habitat

Old oak stumps and logs, often mossy

When to see it

Autumn to early winter.

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Additional images

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