About Crepidotus applanatus (Pers.) P.Kumm.
This fungus, Crepidotus applanatus (Pers.) P.Kumm., grows on deciduous wood, attaching to the side of the wood via at most a rudimentary stem, which gives it a pleurotoid growth form. Its cap can reach up to 4 centimetres (1+1⁄2 inches) wide, and is hygrophanous: it ranges from white to ochraceous when damp, and dries to a whitish shade. Its spores measure around 5–6 μm, are almost spherical in shape, and have a warty surface. It produces a brown spore print. This species has many lookalike species. It can be distinguished from the very similar Crepidotus stenocystis by the shape of its cheilocystidia, which are clavate and unbranched, and its habitat on broad-leaf timber. It is inedible.
