Lemon Disco
Bisporella citrina
50.8843, 5.98617
Field Notes
Description:
Fruiting bodies are small (typically less than 3 mm diameter), disc-shaped, smooth, and colored bright yellow. They are often found in dense clusters growing on rotten wood
Habitat:
location: North America, Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Yellow
normal size: Less than 5cm
cap type: Cup shaped
stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent
flesh: Mushroom slimy or sticky
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on wood
Bisporella citrina (Batsch ex Fr.) Korf & Carpenter syn. Calycella citrina ([Hedwig.] Fr.) Boud. Lemon Disco Fruit body 0.5–3mm across, saucer-shaped tapered below to a small base, bright yellow becoming orange-yellow when old or dried, exterior smooth. Asci 135×10µ. Spores elliptical, containing two oil drops at each end, 9–14×3–5µ, often becoming one-septate. Habitat gregarious in dense swarms on dead wood of deciduous trees. Season autumn. Common. Not edible. Found In Europe and north America.
( http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/gallery/DisplayBlock~bid~5587.asp )
Notes:
My optometrist tells me that "at about 40" is when men can expect to start peering over the tops of their glasses to see tiny things (he says that women, in one of the few cases where they get a raw deal in comparison to men, reach this stage in their early thirties). Well, Bisporella citrina is decidedly one of those tiny things requiring an OMHT (Old Man Head Tilt) to bring into focus, if one has crossed my optometrist's line in the sand; it has a maximum cap size of about three millimeters ( http://www.mushroomexpert.com/bisporella_citrina.html )
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