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Lepiota aspera.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Lepiota friesii, Lépiote ŕ écailles aiguës, Spitzschuppiger Schirmpilz, Tüskés őzlábgomba
Lepiota aspera 2 Mushroom
Ref No: 9378
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Lepiota aspera 3 Mushroom
Ref No: 9379
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Lepiota aspera Mushroom
Ref No: 9380
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location: North America, Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Brown
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Distinctly scaly
stem type: Ring on stem
flesh: Mushroom has distinct or odd smell (non mushroomy)
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Lepiota friesii
Lépiote ŕ écailles aiguës Spitzschuppiger Schirmpilz Lepiota aspera Pers. Syn. Cystoplepiota aspera (Pers.) Bon syn. Lepiota friesii (Lasch) Quél. syn. L. acutesquamosa var. furcata Kühn. Tüskés őzlábgomba. Cap 5–10cm across, ovoid at first then obtusely conical or bell-shaped, dark brown at the centre elsewhere the surface breaking up into dark brown scales. Stem 30–50 x 5–10mm, pallid often with a few dark brown scales at the extreme base; ring whitish, cottony, often adhering to the cap margin. Flesh white. Gills free, crowded and forked near the stem, white. Cheilocystidia thin-walled, subglobose, hyaline, 8–23m in diameter. Spore print white. Spores narrowly fusoid, dextrinoid, 6–8 x 3–4um. Tips of the scales on the cap surface formed of brownish spherical cells. Habitat in deciduous woods. Season autumn. Occasional. Edibility unknown -avoid. A confused species, Europe and almost certainly America .

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Slobodan Nikolic (Yugoslavia) - 24 July 2011

Lepiota aspera
Mirosław Wantoch-Rekowski (Poland) - 25 February 2011

Koœcierzyna Kaszuby.Poland
Lepiota aspera
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