Powderpuff Bracket - Postia ptychogaster

This is a softly spiny,white cushion polypore. Older specimens are brownish.

Older specimens collapse and may superficially resemble slime moulds such as Reticularia.

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Found most commonly on spruce wood and needle debris on the ground.

Autumn to winter.

This is an annual, saprobic polypore. The powderpuff is the asexual state made up of a mass of chlamydospores.

Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.