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

Gerronema strombodes Mushroom
Ref No: 7787
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location: North America
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Yellow, Green, Grey to beige
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Funnel shaped
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on wood

Gerronema strombodes (Berk. & Montague) Singer Cap 2.5-6cm across, convex becoming centrally depressed; gray to gray-brown, sometimes yellowish toward the margin; smooth, darkly and innately striate. Gills decurrent, distant, broad; yellowish white to whitish. Stem 30-60 x 3-7 mm; whitish, yellowish, or grayish; longitudinally hairy. Taste mild to bitterish. Spores ellipsoid, smooth, nonamyloid, 7.5-9 x 3-5.5ì. Deposit whitish. Clamps present. Habitat on deciduous and coniferous tree trunks. Rare. Found in West Virginia and probably other areas. Season August-September. Edibility not known avoid.

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