Mushrooms Geritsy staghorn (blackberries staghorn)

Fruiting body in a width of up to 15 - 30 centimeters, andup to 30 centimeters in height, tree branched, bushy, sometimes at the base of the nodule-shaped, fleshy texture, and then hardening, white, yellowish when dry . Fleshy tissue, hardening when dry, white, later yellowish . Spikes cover almost to the branch of a base, generally from lateral side, freshstate white, then cream with a pinkish tinge, grow brown when dry . Microscopy: Hyphae gelatinous fruit body tissue, with weakly or strongly thickened walls, sometimes with septa and buckles, 4 - 18 cm diameter, amyloid; Thin studs hyphae with septa frequent sometimes buckled, 4 - 15 cm in diameter; in the axialof the spikes are located vaso-eminent hyphae with thickened walls, some segments which have a regular cylindrical shape and sometimes end with a process; often vaso-eminent hyphae have different irregular shape . The spores are ellipsoid somewhat colorless amyloid, 3 . 5 - 5 × 3 . 5 - 4 m Habitat: It grows on stumps andwet trunks of deciduous trees, mainly birch, beech rarely, elm, alder, oak, linden, aspen, mixed and deciduous, rarely coniferous forests . Fruiting: Since the beginning of July to mid-September . Nutritional Properties: Edible at a young age .