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Marasmius cystidiosus.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

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  • Marasmius cystidiosus Mushroom
    Ref No: 8026
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    location: North America
    edibility: Inedible
    fungus colour: Grey to beige
    normal size: Less than 5cm
    cap type: Conical or nearly so
    stem type: Stem much longer than cap diameter
    flesh: Mushroom has distinct or odd smell (non mushroomy), Flesh fibrous usually pliable (like grass)
    spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
    habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on wood, Grows on plant material/manure

    Marasmius cystidiosus (Smith & Hesler) Gilliam Cap 2-5cm across, obtusely bell-shaped; pale tan to buff becoming pale, creamish, with a darker center; smooth, striate when moist. Gills adnate-seceding, crowded; pale buff. Stem 60-120 x 3-6mm, long, thin, sometimes twisted; whitish above, very pale gray-brown toward the white mycelium base; cartilaginous. Odor strong. Taste slight. Spores ellipsoid, 7-9 x 2.5-3.5ì. Deposit white. Pleurocystidia subfusoid, apex often ripple-like, 36-67 x 3-8ì. Habitat in clusters on decayed wood of deciduous trees. Not common. Found in northeastern North America. Season May-July. Edibility not known.

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