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The Fairy Pin

Phaeocalicium polyporaeum

Photo by Tom15
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Field Notes

Notes:

These very tiny fungi grow out of the surface of Purple Tooth fungi (Trichaptum biforme). The second picture shows them on the host.

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File:Phaeocalicium polyporaeum-x.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

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