Lemon Disco

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/D... )

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... )