Botryobasidium candicans

Names across languages

From the latest record: 2024-10-26.

Smooth, waxy, thin layer that forms a continuous, web-like surface over the substrate, white to cream-colored when fresh to pale yellow

(Forms a resupinate, crust-like layer directly on substrate)

(The hymenium forms directly on the surface of the substrate without a cap)

Absent

Spore print: White (microscopic spore mass)

Saprobic, decomposing dead wood and plant material, found on birch branches, fallen logs, in all seasons

Inedible, lacking substantial flesh and considered insignificant for culinary use

Fruit body crust-like, spreading irregularly, forming patches up to 1–20 cm across, with a thickness of only 0.1–0.5 mm

Yellowish tint and occuring on birch (Betula sp) dead wood

Odour indistinct

Spores ellipsoid, smooth, thin-walled, 6–10 x 2.5–4 µm, hyaline in KOH, basidia 4-spored and clavate

Crust-like, white to cream-colored fungus that forms extensive patches on decaying wood

1958). Svensk Bot. Tidskr. 52(1): 6.

Laiaküla raba, Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia

Deciduous forest. On a dead birch branch.

59°28'00.9"N 24°53'22.7"E

🔆 Full overcast, forest shade