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Kingdom Fungi. Large pumpkin like growth on and weighing down a culm of Sinarundinaria falcata bamboo. Firm, with a little give.Cut open a wedge a few days after this photograph, and it was fleshy inside. Firm fleshy like a pineapple. Smelled of ink inside. No idea of genus or species.

Mushroom Stromata growing on live montane bamboo culms, of Sinarundinaria falcata. The cyan colour on top and the rubbery spikes are only on about a tenth of the stromata. Oak rhododendron forests, ca 8,000 ft altitude.

Spore print WHITE. Oddly, I couldn’t find any spores under the microscope when I looked at a gill edge. Will make up a spore slide as time allows…

When I pulled the mushrooms at least half of them were connected to thin root sections from a nearby tree. Not sure if the roots were dead or alive?

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Originally posted to Mushroom Observer on Jun. 28, 2024.