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

Clitocybe robusta Mushroom
Ref No: 7493
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location: North America
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: White to cream
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Funnel shaped
flesh: Mushroom has distinct or odd smell (non mushroomy), Flesh fibrous usually pliable (like grass)
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Clitocybe robusta Pk. Cap 3-16cm across, flattened-convex with an inrolled margin, becoming flatter with a shallowly depressed disc and a wavy margin; whitish becoming pale tan; smooth, dry with a downy bloom, patchy and slightly sticky when wet. Gills adnate to decurrent, close, narrow becoming moderately broad; white to dark cream. Stem 45-100 x 10-35mm, solid becoming hollow, base slightly bulbous; whitish; surface felty, dotted with fine hairs or fine scales at the top and base covered in fine white down. Flesh thick at the disc, firm when dry; white. Odor strong, unpleasant, like Clitocybe nebularis (Batsch ex Fr.) Kummer. Taste sweetish to rancid. Spores ellipsoid, smooth, nonamyloid, 5.5-7.5 x 3-4.5ì. Deposit creamy yellow. Habitat in groups or clusters on leaf debris under conifers or in deciduous woods. Found widely distributed in many parts of North America. Season August-October. Not edible. Comment I found this species growing in vast, numerous, overlapping rings.

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