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Collybia rancida.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Collybie à odeur de rance, Ranziger Rübling
Collybia rancida Mushroom
Ref No: 7534
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location: North America, Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Grey to beige
normal size: Less than 5cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
stem type: Stem much longer than cap diameter, Simple stem
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

Collybia rancida (Fr.) Quél. syn. Lyophyllum rancidum (Fr.) Sing. Collybie à odeur de rance, Ranziger Rübling. Cap 1–4cm across, umbonate, leaden-grey with a whitish bloom at first, shiny when wet. Stem 40–80 x 3–7mm, concolorous with cap, the lower part covered in a dense white tomentum passing into the long rooting base. Flesh greyish. Taste and smell strongly of rancid meal. Gills free, crowded, grey. Spore print white. Spores ellipsoid 7–8 x 3–4.5m. Habitat solitary in deciduous woodland. Season early autumn to early winter. Rare. Not edible due to rancid taste. Distribution, America and Europe.

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