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Choiromyces meandriformis.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

Choiromyces meandriformis Mushroom
Ref No: 7409
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Ref No: 7410
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fungus colour: White to cream
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Other
flesh: Mushroom has distinct or odd smell (non mushroomy)
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows underground

Choiromyces meandriformis Vitt. Fruit body 4–12cm across, irregularly subglobose, yellowish brown. Flesh whitish to yellowish, marbled. Smell strongly aromatic. Asci 180´70m, eight-spored. Spores yellow, globose, 16 x 21µ in diameter, covered in blunt spines. Habitat on soil surface in frondose and mixed woods. Rare. Edibility unknown. Found In Europe.
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