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Nectria
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Nectria cinnabarina
(Coral Spot)
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Nectria cinnabarina (Tode) Fr., 1849 (Coral Spot)

Date: 8 October 2006
Location: Stafford, England
Voucher: 08/10/2006[G]
(Please quote this in any queries about this record)
State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: anamorph on trunk of felled Sycamore
Associated organism: on felled trunk, branch of Acer pseudoplatanus
Identification Notes: Conidia: cylindric-ellipsoid, 5-8/1.5-2µm.
Conidiophores and conidia staining strongly in lactophenol cotton blue.

Contaminant spores (Massaria inquinans): dark, thick-walled, fusiform, spores with three septa near the middle: 70-85/18-20.5µm

Images etc

naked eye photograph Anamorph - close-up - enlarged 500 by 333 pixels
naked eye photograph Anamorph - close-up - enlarged 500 by 333 pixels
naked eye photograph Anamorph - close-up - enlarged 500 by 333 pixels
naked eye photograph Anamorph - close-up - enlarged 500 by 333 pixels
magnified photograph Anamorph - close-up - highly enlarged 500 by 338 pixels
magnified photograph Anamorph - close-up - highly enlarged 500 by 333 pixels
magnified photograph Anamorph - close-up - highly enlarged 500 by 333 pixels
magnified photograph Anamorph - close-up - highly enlarged 500 by 333 pixels
magnified photograph Anamorph - close-up - highly enlarged 500 by 404 pixels
magnified photograph Anamorph - close-up - highly enlarged 500 by 333 pixels
magnified photograph Anamorph - close-up - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
magnified photograph Anamorph - close-up - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
magnified photograph Anamorph - close-up - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
naked eye photograph Anamorph on Sycamore bark - close-up 500 by 332 pixels
naked eye photograph Anamorph on Sycamore bark 500 by 332 pixels
microscope photograph Anamorph - squash - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Anamorph - squash - magnified 500 by 383 pixels
microscope photograph Conidia - magnified 500 by 463 pixels
microscope photograph Conidiophores and conidia - magnified 500 by 375 pixels
microscope photograph Conidiophores and conidia - magnified 500 by 441 pixels
microscope photograph Conidiophores and conidia - highly magnified 500 by 382 pixels
microscope photograph Conidiophores and conidia - highly magnified 500 by 459 pixels
microscope photograph Contaminant spores (Massaria inquinans) - magnified 500 by 354 pixels
microscope photograph Contaminant spores (Massaria inquinans) - magnified 500 by 451 pixels

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