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Cystolepiota adulterina.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Heckenschirmpilz
Cystolepiota adulterina Mushroom
Ref No: 7650
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Cystolepiota adulterina2 Mushroom
Ref No: 7651
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Cystolepiota adulterina3 Mushroom
Ref No: 7652
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location: Europe
edibility: Poisonous/Suspect
fungus colour: White to cream
stem type: Ring on stem, Bulbous base of stem, Stem much longer than cap diameter
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Cystolepiota adulterina (Moeller) Bon syn. Lepiota adulterina Møll. Heckenschirmpilz. Cap 1.5–2.5cm across, conico-convex, initially beige and scurfy with a few cottony warts, later disrupting into thick mealy ochraceous warts on a pale cream ground, velar remains adhering to the margin. Stem 30–40 x 2–4mm, whitish to pinkish with a scurfy beige covering below the ring zone. Flesh whitish in cap, vinaceous towards the base of the stem. Gills cream. Cheilocystidia inconspicuous, thin-walled, clavate with pointed apex. Spore print white. Spores narrowly elliptic to subcylindric, 4–6 x 2–2.5um. Surface of cap covered with small, thin-walled globose cells 15–30m in diameter. Habitat broad-leaved woods amongst scrub; ash, nettle, dog’s mercury. Season late summer to autumn. Rare. Suspect – avoid. Found In Europe.

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