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Lepista luscina.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Argouane des praires, Mehliger Rötelritterling
Lepista luscina Mushroom
Ref No: 9418
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location: Europe
edibility: Edible
fungus colour: Grey to beige
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
flesh: Mushroom has distinct or odd smell (non mushroomy)
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows on the ground, Found in fields, lawns or on roadsides

Lepista luscina (Fr. ex Fr.) Sing. syn. Clitocybe luscina (Fr. ex Fr.) Karst. syn. Tricholoma panaeolum (Fr.) Quél. Mehliger Rötelritterling Argouane des praires. Cap 3–10cm across, convex becoming flattened or depressed and wavy, grey-brown, often ornamented with darker concentric rings of spots, white and mealy at margin. Stem 30–50 x 4–6mm, fibrous, apex white and mealy, greyish-brown below. Flesh thin, pallid. Taste sweet, mushroomy, smell of meal. Gills crowded, white then greyish. Spore print pale pinkish. Spores elliptic, minutely roughened, 5–7 x 3.5–4.5um. Habitat in rings in grass. Season autumn. Rare. Edible. (Never eat any mushroom until you are certain it is edible as many are poisonous and some are deadly poisonous.) Found In Europe.

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