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Asterophora lycoperdoides (Bull.) Ditmar, 1809 (Powdery Piggyback)

Date: 2 October 1999
Location: North Hampshire, England
Voucher: 02/10/1999[A]
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State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: on crowded-gilled blackening Russula (densifolia?)
Associated organism: on old fruitbody of Russula
Identification Notes: Caps initially white, but brown chlamydospores bursting through after a couple of days

Images etc

magnified photograph Cap - mature - close-up 25 Kb 317 by 414 pixels
magnified photograph Caps - mature - close-up 38 Kb 399 by 413 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbodies - mature - close-up 500 by 349 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbodies - mature 500 by 412 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbodies - mature 467 by 500 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbodies - young - close-up 45 Kb 372 by 463 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbodies on Russula sp. 37 Kb 453 by 328 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbodies on Russula sp. 500 by 356 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbody - close-up 204 by 500 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbody - close-up 25 Kb 183 by 479 pixels
magnified photograph Fruitbody - close-up 199 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Chlamydospores - magnified 500 by 356 pixels
microscope photograph Chlamydospores - magnified 45 Kb 493 by 388 pixels
microscope photograph Chlamydospores - highly magnified 21 Kb 337 by 299 pixels

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