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Pluteus cervinus.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Barna csengettyűgomba, Deer Shield, Plutée couleur de cerf, Rehbrauner Dachpilz
Pluteus cervinus3 Mushroom
Ref No: 8755
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Pluteus cervinus2 Mushroom
Ref No: 8760
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location: North America, Europe
edibility: Edible
fungus colour: Brown, Grey to beige
normal size: 5-15cm
stem type: Simple stem
spore colour: Pink
habitat: Grows on wood

Pluteus cervinus (Schaeff. ex Fr.) Kummer Rehbrauner Dachpilz Plutée couleur de cerf Deer Shield Barna (változékony) csengettyűgomba. Cap 4–12cm across, bell-shaped then convex to flattened, sepia to dark umber with radiating streaks. Stem 70–100 X 5–15mm, slightly swollen at the base, white becoming streaked with umber fibres. Flesh white. Taste and smell not distinctive. Gills white, later dull pink. Cystidia fusoid with thickened walls and crowned with several apical prongs. Spore print pink. Spores broadly elliptic, 7–8 x 5–6um. Habitat on rotting stumps, trunks and sawdust of deciduous trees. Season early summer to late autumn, but also sporadically throughout the year. Very common. Edible – not worthwhile, some members of a foray group in north America were taken ill after eating it. Distribution, America and Europe.

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Ricky Rasquedo (United Kingdom) - 12 August 2011

September 2010, North Wales.
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Lorand Bartho (Hungary) - 15 February 2009

Hungarian names, Barna csengettyügomba, Változékony csengettyügomba
Lorand Bartho (Hungary) - 24 October 2008

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