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| Spores from yellow bolete. |
Also took a small squash on a slide from the unidentified black jelly-type fungus and low and behold it would seem to be a ascomycete. Whereas the spores I checked yesterday would seem to be from a basidiomycete as they seemed to show an apiculus attachment. I checked the original spores again and they were still spiny ones. When I took the first spore sample the jelly was very wet and slippery and the moisture left a black stain on the slide which I took to be the spores of the jelly - these were spiny with the apiculi on them. So it was quite a surprise to see all those ascospores. I wonder what the other spores were and where they came from? - still no nearer finding a name for the black jelly though!
Have attached a few photos of varying magnification - look quite pretty I think.
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| Ascospores from black jelly at 100x, 400x and 1000x magnification. |
I went back today to look for any more Wood Boletes nearby but couldn't find any. Also had a look at the black blobs on the conifer. I knew it was a conifer because it was lying in a line of windblown fir trees that had come down a number of years ago and were all covered in moss. So you can imagine my surprise when I found it had miraculously turned into an oak tree! I believe now that it is Bulgaria inquinans because further down the trunk were some of the more usual black/brown buttons.
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