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Mycena leaiana.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

Mycena leaiana Mushroom
Ref No: 8407
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location: North America
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Orange
normal size: Less than 5cm
cap type: Conical or nearly so
flesh: Flesh fibrous usually pliable (like grass)
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows on wood

Mycena leaiana (Berk.) Sacc. Cap 1-5cm across, bell-shaped becoming convex, with center sometimes depressed; bright reddish orange becoming more yellow in age; slimy, shiny, smooth. Gills adnate, close to crowded, broad; dirty yellow-pink, staining orange-yellow when cut, with bright red-orange edges. Stem 30-70 x 1-3mm, tough, fibrous; orange to yellow, paler near apex, exuding a little watery, orange juice; slimy and somewhat sticky with base covered in dense, coarse hairs. Flesh thickish, pliant; white beneath the orange cuticle. Odor faintly mealy. Taste slight. Spores ellipsoid, amyloid, 7-10 x 5-6ì. Deposit white. Habitat in dense clusters on deciduous wood. Common. Throughout central and eastern states of North America. Season f one-September. Edibility not known- avoid.

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ashleigh raczkowski (United States) - 06 February 2011

August 16, 2010 Heritage Park, Adrian, MI, USA
Mycena leaiana
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