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Clitocybe geotropa.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Mönchskopf, Trooping Funnel
Clitocybe geotropa Mushroom
Ref No: 7475
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location: North America, Europe
edibility: Edible
fungus colour: White to cream, Grey to beige
normal size: over 15cm
cap type: Funnel shaped
stem type: Bulbous base of stem
flesh: Flesh fibrous usually pliable (like grass)
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows on the ground

Clitocybe geotropa (Bull. ex St. Amans.) Quél. syn. C. maxima ([Fl. Wett.] Fr.) Kummer Mönchskopf Trooping Funnel. Cap 4–20cm across, convex at first with a prominent broad umbo, becoming depressed, the margin remaining strongly incurved, pale yellowish buff when young later more flesh-coloured. Stem 50–150 x 20–30mm, swollen and slightly downy at the base, concolorous with the cap or paler. Flesh white. Smell faint and sweet. Gills decurrent, concolorous with cap. Spore print white. Spores subglobose, 6.5–7 x 5–6μ. Habitat in open deciduous or mixed woodland or grassy clearings, often in rings or troops. Season autumn. Occasional. Edible. (Never eat any mushroom until you are certain it is edible as many are poisonous and some are deadly poisonous.) Distribution, America and Europe.

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