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The true dry rot fungus produces a white to greyish mycelium on wood. The decayed wood breaks up into a greyish brown cuboidal rot with cross-cracks every 7 cm. The mycelium may form hyphal strands which connect to sources of moisture and which may spread over mortar, insulation materials or soil if living in the wild. Fruiting bodies are more than 2 mm thick and are easily separated from the substrate. Size varies from 100 to 1000 cm2 Brown spores measuring about 10 × 8 µm are formed on the surface.
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Bech-Andersen, J. (1999). Comparison Between Serpula Lacrymans Found in the Indian Himalayas and Mount Shasta, California. In: Singh, J., Aneja, K.R. (eds) From Ethnomycology to Fungal Biotechnology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4815-7_26
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