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| synonyms: Mönchskopf, Trooping Funnel |
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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 |
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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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Slobodan Nikolic (Yugoslavia) - 23 November 2009
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