Clitocybe fragrans (Fr.) Kummer Duftender Trichterling Fragrant Funnel. Cap 1.5-4cm across, flattened convex sometimes slightly depressed, with an inrolled margin becoming somewhat wavy in age; hygrophanous, pale yellowish brown when wet, whitish cream when dry, with a darker center; smooth, finely lined at the margin. Gills adnate to slightly decurrent, close, narrow to moderately broad; whitish buff. Stem 30-60 x 3-6mm, stuffed then hollow, often curved and slightly enlarged toward the base; whitish to pale-buff; silky with fine hairs on stem, felty with a few thin rhizoids at the base. Flesh thin, soft, pliant; whitish to buff. Odor of aniseed. Taste of aniseed. Spores ellipsoid, smooth, nonamyloid, 6.5-8 x 3.5-4ì. Deposit white. Habitat growing either scattered, in groups, or in clusters under deciduous trees. Found in northeastern and northwestern North America and California. Season July-September (December in California). Edible but avoid due to possible confusion with similar dangerously poisonous species. |