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Tylopilus griseocarneus.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

Tylopilus griseocarneus Mushroom
Ref No: 9620
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fungus colour: Brown, Grey to beige
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
flesh: Flesh discolours when cut, bruised or damaged
spore colour: Pink
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Tylopilus griseocarneus Wolfe & Halling. Cap 4-11 cm across, convex; pale charcoal to dark brownish gray, sometimes bruising darker; dry, velvety, occasionally cracked. Tubes gray, staining orange finally fuscous where injured; depressed around stem. Pores black when young, gray in age staining grayish orange. Stem 45-85 x 10-35mm, thickest at the apex, tapering at the base; blackish brown or charcoal, lighter above, darker below; velvety with a distinct network on the upper half. Flesh solid, pallid gray to dark gray, staining strongly orange to orangy-red. Odor slight. Taste mild. Spores fusiform-ellipsoid, smooth, 7.8-14.3 x 3-5.2µ. Deposit pinkish brown. Habitat in sandy soil under oak and pine. Found in the New Jersey Pine Barrens and southern Louisiana. Season July-August. Edibility not known. Comment A new species published only in 1989. Easily distinguished from T. alboater by the strong orange to red discoloration on cutting or damaging a fresh specimen.

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