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| synonyms: Charcoal Scalycap, Kohlenschüppling |
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| location: Europe |
| edibility: Inedible |
| fungus colour: Brown, Grey to beige |
| normal size: Less than 5cm |
| cap type: Distinctly scaly |
| stem type: Ring on stem |
| flesh: Mushroom slimy or sticky |
| spore colour: Light to dark brown |
| habitat: Grows on the ground |
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Pholiota carbonaria (Fr. ex Fr.) Sing. syn. Flammula carbonaria (Fr. ex Fr.) Kummer syn. Dryophila carbonaria (Fr. ex Fr.) Quél. Kohlenschüppling Charcoal Scalycap. Cap 2–5cm across, shallowly convex becoming flattened and wavy, smooth, ochre-brown to tan but lighter at the margin, viscid drying shiny. Stem 35–70 x 4–8mm, pale yellowish above the ring zone, covered in fine cottony fibres and darkening reddish-brown towards the base. Flesh pale yellow except for the rusty-brown stem base. Taste and smell not distinctive. Gills at first pale clay later cinnamon, finally olive-brown. Pleurocystidia thin-walled, hyaline, fusiform and projecting conspicuously beyond the basidia; cheilocystidia similar. Spore print brown. Spores oval, smooth 6.5–8´3.5–4.5m. Habitat on burnt ground often in large numbers. Season autumn and sporadically throughout the year. Common. Not edible. Found In Europe. |
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