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Leotia lubrica.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Jelly Babies
Leotia lubrica Mushroom
Ref No: 9370
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Leotia lubrica2 Mushroom
Ref No: 9371
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Leotia lubrica3 Mushroom
Ref No: 9372
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location: North America, Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Yellow, Green
normal size: Less than 5cm
cap type: Other
flesh: Flesh fibrous usually pliable (like grass)
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Leotia lubrica Fr. Jelly Babies. Fruit body a small stalked club with convoluted head. Head 1-4cm across, convex and rather convoluted, margin inrolled; ochre, cinnamon to pale buff, often with olive tint; smooth, gelatinous. Stem 20-50 x 5-l0mm; pale ochre-yellow; minutely scaly-squamulose. Spores spindle-shaped, with rounded ends, often curved, 20-25 x 5-6µ; becoming 6-8-celled within. Habitat often gregarious on soil in mixed woods. Common. Found in Europe and throughout North America. Season July-October. Edibility not known.

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