Rogers Mushrooms - Conocybe ochracea Mushroom


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Conocybe ochracea. Click a photo to enlarge it. back to list

synonyms: Ockerbraunes Samthaubchen

Ref No: 7550
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location: Europe

edibility: Poisonous/Suspect

fungus colour: Yellow, Grey to beige

normal size: Less than 5cm

cap type: Funnel shaped

stem type: Stem much longer than cap diameter

spore colour: Light to dark brown

habitat: Grows on the ground, Found in fields, lawns or on roadsides

Conocybe ochracea (Kuhn.) Sing. syn. C. siliginea var. ochracea Kuhn.Ockerbraunes Samthaubchen. Cap 1¨C2cm across, bell-shaped, ochre to tawny brown, drying paler, striate from margin to halfway to centre. Stem 30-60 x 2-3mm, pale at the apex, concolorous with cap below, towards the base covered in fine white fibres. Flesh pale ochraceous buff. Gills adnexed or free, clay-buff at first later ochraceous. Spore print ochraceous. Spores 8.5-11.5 x 5-7ė. Cheilocystidia skittle-shaped, head 3-5ė in diameter. Habitat in lawns. Season summer. Common. Not edible. Found In Europe.


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