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

synonyms: Entelome livide, Livid Pinkgill, Perfide Jaunet, Reisenrotling
Entoloma sinuatum 2 Mushroom
Ref No: 7718
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Entoloma sinuatum GK Mushroom
Ref No: 7720
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Entoloma sinuatum Mushroom
Ref No: 7721
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location: North America, Europe
edibility: Poisonous/Suspect
fungus colour: White to cream, Grey to beige
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
flesh: Mushroom has distinct or odd smell (non mushroomy)
spore colour: Pink
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Entoloma sinuatum (Bull. ex Fr.) Kummer Reisenrotling Entelome livide, Perfide Jaunet Livid, Pinkgill. Cap 5-15cm across, convex with a broad hump, becoming flatter and sometimes wavy in age, with a down-curved margin; dirty cream to dull brownish or grayish; smooth, slightly slippery when wet, sometimes with a faint bloom. Gills adnate, close to almost distant, broad; pale grayish yellow, becoming pinkish in maturity. Stem 40-150 x 10-25mm; pale grayish; slightly hairy. Flesh thick near stalk, firm; white. Odor odd, like bad meal or fishy. Taste nasty. Spores subglobose, angular, with many oil drops, 7-10 x 7-9µ. Deposit salmon pink. Habitat scattered or in groups on the ground under conifers and hardwoods. Found widely distributed in North America and Europe. Season August-September. Poisonous. Comment Formerly known as Entoloma lividum, which has now been split off as a separate species because of the lack of yellow color showing in the gills. The photograph on the white ground is by Geoffrey Kibby.

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