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Tricholomopsis platyphylla.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Breitblättriger Holzritterling, Collybie à chapeau rayé, Collybie à feuillets épais
Tricholoma platyphllya Mushroom
Ref No: 9548
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Tricholoma platyphyllaF Mushroom
Ref No: 9549
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Tricholoma platyphyllaF2 Mushroom
Ref No: 9550
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Tricholomopsis platyphylla Mushroom
Ref No: 9589
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location: North America, Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Brown, Grey to beige
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
stem type: Simple stem
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground, Grows on wood

Tricholomopsis platyphylla (Pers. ex Fr.) Sing. syn. Oudemansiella platyphylla (Pers. ex Fr.) Moser syn. Collybia platyphylla (Pers. ex Fr.) Kummer Breitblättriger Holzritterling Collybie à feuillets épais, Collybie à chapeau rayé. Cap 4–10cm across, hemispherical soon expanded with depressed centre, dark grey-brown with an ochraceous tint, somewhat streaky surface sometimes disrupting in minute scurfy scales towards the margin. Stem 30–50 x 10–13mm, tough, whitish fibrillosely striate often flushed with cap colour, passing into long rooting mycelial strands. Flesh white. Taste bitter, smell not distinctive. Gills very broad, whitish cream. Cheilocystidia thin-walled, swollen pear-shaped, 50–60 x 15–25um. Spore print white. Spores subglobose 6–8 x 6–7um. Habitat attached to deciduous stumps or pieces of buried wood by the tough white mycelial strands. Season summer to autumn. Common. Not edible. Distribution, America and Europe.

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