Each elliptical shaped fungus is extremely small (around 2mm in diameter) but they occur in clusters on decaying wood in autumn. Interestingly, it is an extremely widespread species, being found in 6 continents!
Sunday, 25 October 2015
~ Lemon Discos ~
As part of the Biodiversity module, we went on a Fungal Foray around campus. One species I found particularly interesting was Bisporella citrine or Lemon Discos. I went back the following day to take some close-up photographs of them and then did a small amount of research.
Each elliptical shaped fungus is extremely small (around 2mm in diameter) but they occur in clusters on decaying wood in autumn. Interestingly, it is an extremely widespread species, being found in 6 continents!
Each elliptical shaped fungus is extremely small (around 2mm in diameter) but they occur in clusters on decaying wood in autumn. Interestingly, it is an extremely widespread species, being found in 6 continents!
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