Variable Oysterling

Appearance

Cap
The cap is initially white, turning creamy-ochre with age. The fruitbody is nearly always laterally attached to its substrate - usually small twigs - via its cap, rather than with a stipe.

Typically 0.5 to 2cm in diameter and often slightly lobed.

Gills
The gills, which radiate from the point of attachment, are moderately crowded. White at first, they gradually turn yellow-brown or buff.

Stem
Almost invariably this little woodland mushroom has no stipe (stem) at all.

Spores
Ellipsoidal, ornamented with minute spiny warts, 5-7 x 3-3.5um.

Spore print
Pinkish buff.

Distribution

America and Europe

Habitat

Saprobic, on twigs in deciduous and mixed woodland