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Entoloma salmoneum.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

Entoloma salmoneum Mushroom
Ref No: 7712
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location: North America
edibility: Poisonous/Suspect
fungus colour: Green, Orange
normal size: Less than 5cm
cap type: Conical or nearly so
spore colour: Pink
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Entoloma salmoneum (Pk.) Sacc. Cap 1-4cm across, bell-shaped to cone-shaped with a distinctly pointed tip; salmon orange, fading with age; smooth, moist. Gills adnexed, subdistant, broad; same color as cap. Stem 40-100 x 2-6mm, hollow, sometimes compressed; salmon orange tinged greenish; with a faint bloom at the top and lined with fine hairs. Flesh thin, fragile; orange to salmon. Odor mild. Taste mild. Spores angular or almost square in section, 10-12 x 10-12µ. Deposit salmon pink. No pleurocystidia. Habitat scattered on moist or mossy soil, humus, or leaf litter under conifers or hardwoods. Found in northeastern North America, south to North Carolina and west to Ohio. Season June-October. Poisonous to some people

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