Smoked Oysterling - Resupinatus applicatus
Resupinatus applicatus has small, grey, cup like fruit bodies which have fine hairs. They have firm, gelatinous flesh and no stem. They rarely grow to much more than 1 cm in diameter.
Resupinatus trichotis has a patch of dark hairs on the cap
Good photographs of the species in its habitat and of the cap and gills
It is saprobic and grows on decaying wood.
All year round.
Widespread in the southern half of Britain, but less well recorded further north.
Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.
Tim Sexton
Rutland Water Nature Reserve
03 November 2021
det. T Sexton
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Species profile
- Common names
- Smoked Oysterling
- Species group:
- fungus
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Tricholomataceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 1
- First record:
- 03/11/2021 (Sexton, Timothy)
- Last record:
- 03/11/2021 (Sexton, Timothy)
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