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  • Macowanites luteolus Mushroom
    Ref No: 7821
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    Macowanites luteolusQuery Mushroom
    Ref No: 7822
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    location: North America
    edibility: Inedible
    fungus colour: White to cream, Grey to beige
    normal size: Less than 5cm
    cap type: Other
    stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent
    flesh: Flesh granular or brittle
    spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
    habitat: Grows underground

    Macowanites luteolus Smith and Trappe Fruit body 2-4cm across, uneven, lumpy button mushroom-shaped with a smooth surface; white to creamy buff, drying yellowish; slightly viscid at first. Spore mass creamy sponge-like mass of half-formed gills. Stem
    10-20 x 5-l0mm, short and stubby; whitish or creamy like the cap. Flesh pallid. Odor slight. Taste like raw potatoes. Spores globose to subglobose, with warts or spines like a russula, 7.9-9.4 x 7-8.5µ; warts up to lmm long, amyloid when viewed under a microscope. Habitat just under or on the surface of the ground under conifers. Found in Oregon and on the Washington coast. Season September-October. Edibility not known. Comment Like an underground russula that does not properly form its gills. One form, which has no stem, was collected in Washington with the normal type. The spores of this collection are similar but a little larger, 9-14.5 x 8.4-11.5µ.

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