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Gerronema chrysophylla.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

Gerronema chrysophylla2 Mushroom
Ref No: 7786
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location: North America, Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Yellow, Grey to beige
normal size: Less than 5cm
cap type: Funnel shaped
stem type: Simple stem
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on wood

Gerronema chrysophylla (Fr.) Singer syn. Omphalina chrysophylla (Fr.) Murr. Cap 0.5-4cm across, flat with a shallowly depressed disc and incurved margin, becoming more funnel-shaped in age; ochre to yellowish brown; moist to dry, minutely hairy to scaly. Gills decurrent, distant, narrow to broad; orange-yellow. Stem 20-50 x 1-3mm, stuffed to hollow, somewhat curved or flattened; orange-yellow, sometimes tinged with brown, cottony white at the base; smooth, moist. Flesh thin, flexible; orange. Odor not distinctive. Taste not distinctive. Spores ellipsoid to cylindrical, smooth, nonamyloid, 8.5-15.5 x 4.5-6ì. Deposit yellowish. Habitat scattered or in clusters on rotting conifer logs and moss. Found widely distributed throughout North America and in Europe. Season May-September. Edibility not known -avoid.

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