Pink gray body, yellow-white bottom, highly branched
Fruiting Body: Somewhat spreading, profusely branched, 8 cm tall and 4 cm broad before drying
Branches: Irregularly shaped, looked tangled, pallid becoming grayish to purple gray when dried, tips forked
Stalk: Short fleshy sterile base colored like branches and white at very base
Flesh: White and brittle
Spore Print: Spores white
Microscopic Characteristics:
Spores broad, smooth and elliptical, basidia are two spored
Collector
Solveig Adair
Number
SA1
Other Collectors
Determined by
Solveig Adair
Host Substratum
Notes
Ashy Coral Mushroom
Habitat
DNA sequence in GeneBank
Name of Sequencer
Specimen Images
Cap shape when mature
phylum
Basidiomycota
material collected
coral
morphology summary
Material collected: coral
Color of top surface: 2 light gray
Secondary color top surface: 6 pink or salmon
Spore print color: 1 white
Stipe flesh fracture: 4 brittle or crumbly
Stipe flesh color: 1 white
Spore shape: 3 elliptical
Spore ornamentation: 1 smooth