page_title: Oudemansiella mucida
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Oudemansiella mucida / Description
caption_attribution_description: Porcelain Fungus - Oudemansiella mucida
context_page_description: Mucidula mucida, commonly known as porcelain fungus, is a basidiomycete fungus of the family Physalacriaceae and native to Europe.
  M. mucida is a white, slimy wood-rot fungus and is strongly tied to rotting beech, where it grows in clusters. It is in season late summer to late autumn, and tiny fungi can then sometimes be seen parachuting from high branches, when they are dislodged by the wind on breezy days.
context_section_description: Caps are 2–8 cm across, strongly convex at first, but mildly flattening over time. They are pale greyish when young, becoming whiter and covered with a semi-translucent and slimy membrane, often with an ochraceous flush at the centre. The surface layer resembles spore-bearing tissue, with erect club-shaped cells, but lacks functional basidia (i.e. cap cuticle is hymeniform).
  The slender stems are 30–100 mm tall and 3–10 mm wide, white striate above a substantial membranous ring and slightly scaly and greyish below.
  Flesh is thin and white and the lamellae are adnate, broad and very distant.
  Cystidia are thin-walled cylindric or utriform. Spore print is white, they are smooth and subglobose in shape and very thickwalled at 13–18×12–15 µm.
  When porcelain mushrooms grow from the underside of the tree, the stems will curl in a way so the caps are all held horizontally, with the gills facing down.
  O. mucida are seldom confused with other fungi.
caption: Underside showing lamellae and stem
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