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

synonyms: Alnicola melinoides, Gemeiner Erlenschnitzling, Ochre Aldercap
Naucoria escharoides Mushroom
Ref No: 9310
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Naucoria escharoides2 Mushroom
Ref No: 9312
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location: Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Yellow, Grey to beige
normal size: Less than 5cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
flesh: Mushroom has distinct or odd smell (non mushroomy)
spore colour: Light to dark brown
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Naucoria escharoides (Fr. ex Fr.) Kummer syn. Alnicola escharoides (Fr. ex Fr.) Kummer syn. Alnicola melinoides (Bull:Fr) Kuhner. Gemeiner Erlenschnitzling Ochre Aldercap. Cap 0.7–4cm across, pale yellowish buff when moist drying even paler, not striate. Stem 15–40 x 1–4mm, concolorous with cap, more yellowish towards the apex. Flesh thin, brown to buff. Taste radishy or sometimes bitter, smell sweet. Gills ochraceous to ochre-brown. Cheilocystidia densely crowded, thin-walled, with swollen base and long narrow neck with acute apex. Spore print brown. Spores brown, almond-shaped and rough, (9)10–13 x 5–6.5um. Habitat in damp ground under alders. Season autumn. Frequent. Not edible. Found In Europe.

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