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

Clitocybe truncicola Mushroom
Ref No: 7498
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location: North America
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Grey to beige
normal size: Less than 5cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
stem type: Simple stem
flesh: Flesh fibrous usually pliable (like grass)
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on wood

Clitocybe truncicola (Pk.) Sacc. Cap 1-5cm across, broadly convex with an inrolled margin, becoming flatter then broadly depressed in age with an undulating margin; whitish becoming buff colored; thickly covered in dense, white downy hairs. Gills adnate to short decurrent, close to crowded, narrow; whitish to creamy buff. Stem 10-40 x 2-l0mm, stuffed, with base sometimes slightly enlarged and curved; white to pale cream or pale pinky-buff; slight bloom at the top, fine dense hairs below. Flesh thin, firm; white. Odor not distinctive. Taste not distinctive. Spores subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, smooth, nonamyloid, 3.5-4.5 x 2.5-3.5µ. Deposit white. Habitat scattered or in groups on hardwood stumps and fallen trunks. Found widely distributed in central and eastern North America. Season August-September. Not edible.

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