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| synonyms: Grayling |
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| location: North America, Europe |
| edibility: Inedible |
| fungus colour: Brown, Grey to beige |
| normal size: Less than 5cm |
| cap type: Funnel shaped |
| stem type: Stem much longer than cap diameter |
| flesh: Flesh fibrous usually pliable (like grass) |
| spore colour: White, cream or yellowish |
| habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground |
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Cantharellula umbonata (Fr.) Singer Grayling. Cap 2-5cm across, convex becoming funnel-shaped with a small central umbo and sometimes a wavy margin; grayish brown to smoky or violaceous gray; dry and minutely hairy. Gills decurrent, crowded, narrow, thickish, regularly forked; whitish bruising red or yellow. Stem 25-80 x 3-7mm, tough, stuffed; whitish to graying; silky. Flesh white, bruising red where cut or handled. Odor scented. Taste mild. Spores subfusoid, smooth, amyloid, 8-11 x 3-4.5µ. Deposit white. Habitat scattered or in groups in hair-cap moss. Common. Found widely distributed in northeastern North America and Europe. Season August-November. Inedible. |
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Wojciech Mazurkiewicz (Poland) - 30 March 2011

cantharellula umbonata - 2007/10/01 - Polska; Kaszuby - Bory Tucholskie
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Wojciech Mazurkiewicz (Poland) - 30 March 2011

cantharellula umbonata - 2007/10/01 - Polska; Kaszuby - Bory Tucholskie
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Wojciech Mazurkiewicz (Poland) - 30 March 2011

cantharellula umbonata - 2007/10/01 - Polska; Kaszuby - Bory Tucholskie
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Mirosław Wantoch-Rekowski (Poland) - 26 August 2010

11/11/2009 Tuszkowy lasy sosnowe.Kaszuby-Poland
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