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Wasn't able to get a decent photo of the spores. On average they measured 46 x 2um and even in the eyepieces it was hard to make out any details. I did get a photo of some asci with the spores coiled up inside of them. You can actually see a free floating spore in this photo, the pineneedle shaped thing to the lower left of the scale bar, upper right of the central ascus.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I've never seen asci with anything but ovoid spores, the stringy ones look super cool!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Here are the spores, I just couldn't manage a decent photo of them with my cheap microscope.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

As a fellow cheap microscope owner, I feel ya. Thanks for sharing anyway.

I have similarly bad photos of spores from a 'Cudonia' spp. I found which are also thin and hard to see (Cudonia is likely going to be combined with Spathularia because they're so close genetically).