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Hygrophorus erubescens.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Piruló csigagomba
Hygrophorus erubescens Mushroom
Ref No: 8015
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Hygrophorus erubescens2 Mushroom
Ref No: 8016
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location: North America, Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: White to cream, Red or redish or pink
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Distinctly scaly
flesh: Flesh discolours when cut, bruised or damaged
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Hygrophorus erubescens (Fr.) Fr. Piruló csigagomba. Cap 3-10cm across, convex becoming flatter and broadly umbonate with an incurved margin; whitish or flesh-colored, with a pink tinge over the whole cap and darker red on the disc; purple-pink scales or fibers all over the cap, yellow-spotted in places; margin minutely woolly and often beaded with drops of moisture. Gills adnate to decurrent, subdistant, moderately broad; pink spotted red. Stem 40-70 X 6-12mm, at first beaded with drops of moisture; top white, lower part pale reddish-brown and sometimes yellowish when bruised; scaly and covered in minute, close fibers. Flesh thin, but thicker on disc; white; staining yellowish where bruised. Odor not distinctive. Taste bitter. Spores ellipsoid, nonamyloid, 6.4-7.7 x 4.1-5.2ě. Deposit white. Habitat gregarious under conifers, particularly pine and spruce. Common at high altitudes. Found in western North America, especially in the mountains. Season September-November. Not edible.

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