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Cortinarius hinnuleus.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Earthy Webcap, Hirschbrauner Wasserkopf
Cortinarius hinnuleus Mushroom
Ref No: 6800
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Cortinarius hinnuleus2 Mushroom
Ref No: 6801
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location: North America
edibility: Poisonous/Suspect
fungus colour: Red or redish or pink, Brown
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
stem type: Stem much longer than cap diameter
flesh: Mushroom has distinct or odd smell (non mushroomy)
spore colour: Rusty brown
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Cortinarius (Telamonia) hinnuleus (Sow.) Fr. Hirschbrauner Wasserkopf Earthy Webcap Cap 2.5–6cm across, convex to bell-shaped then expanded and umbonate, dark ochre brown when moist drying paler and more ochraceous, margin pallid when young and covered in the whitish cobwebby veil. Stem 30–100 x 5–12mm, paler than cap, covered below in white silky velar remains, often forming a distinct white ring-like zone; cortina white. Flesh whitish tinged with cap colour, often flushed violaceous in stem apex when young. Taste mild with a slightly bitter aftertaste, smell slight, sometimes faintly of radish. Gills tinged violaceous at first, ochraceous then tawny. Spore print rust. Spores narrowly elliptic, minutely roughened, 7–8(9) x 4–4.75µ. Habitat with popular and willow. Season autumn. Occasional. Edibility poisonous. Distribution, America and Europe.

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