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Naucoria centunculus.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Samtiger Erlenschnitzling
Naucoria centunculus Mushroom
Ref No: 9309
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location: Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Yellow, Brown, Grey to beige
normal size: Less than 5cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
spore colour: Light to dark brown
habitat: Grows on wood

Naucoria centunculus (Fr.) Kummer Samtiger Erlenschnitzling. Cap 4–25mm across, shallowly convex, velvety pruinose under a lens, tan-brown usually with an olivaceous tinge. Stem 6–30 x 1–3mm, light olive-brown. Flesh olive-brown. Smell acidic. Gills pale tan-buff often tinged olivaceous. Cheilocystidia and dermatocystidia rather elongated cylindric flexuose often with a swollen apex 6–14um wide. Spore print brown. Spores brown, bean-shaped, smooth, 6.5–10 x 4–5.5um. Habitat on deciduous stumps or logs. Season autumn. Occasional. Not edible. Found In Europe.

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