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| synonyms: Grosser Waldegerling, Waldegerling Scaly Wood Mushroom |
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| location: Europe |
| edibility: Choice |
| fungus colour: White to cream, Red or redish or pink |
| normal size: 5-15cm |
| cap type: Distinctly scaly |
| stem type: Ring on stem |
| flesh: Flesh discolours when cut, bruised or damaged |
| spore colour: Purplish to black |
| habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground |
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Agaricus langei (Møller) Møller syn. Psalliota langei Møller
Grosser Waldegerling Scaly Wood Mushroom Cap 4–12cm across, convex, densely covered in fine rust brown fibrous scales. Stem 30–120 x 15–30mm, whitish with pink tinge and slightly mealy beneath the white pendulous ring. Flesh white gradually becoming bright red on cutting. Taste and smell pleasant and mushroomy. Gills pale fawny-pink at first becoming darker with age. Cheilocysitidia numerous, thin-walled, tufted, ovate to broadly-clavate, hyaline or brownish, 20–50 x 10–30µ. Spore print purple-brown. Spores elliptic, 7–9 x 3.5–5µ. Habitat in coniferous or mixed woods. Season late summer to autumn. Occasional. Edible – good. Found In Europe. |
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