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Xeromphalina campanella.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

Xeromphalina campanella Mushroom
Ref No: 9664
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Xeromphalina campanella2 Mushroom
Ref No: 9665
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location: North America, Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Yellow, Orange
normal size: Less than 5cm
cap type: Funnel shaped
flesh: Flesh fibrous usually pliable (like grass)
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows on wood

Xeromphalina campanella (Bat. ex Fr.) K¨¹hner & Maire Cap 0.3-3cm across, convex usually with a sunken center, with prominent radial lines; bright tawny ochre to cinnamon; smooth. Gills decurrent, widely spaced; pale yellow to orange. Stem 10-50 x 0.5-3mm, often with swollen base; red-brown at base, yellow at apex; smooth, base covered with dense tawny hairs. Odor not distinctive. Taste not distinctive. Spores elliptic, amyloid, 5-7 x 3-4um. Deposit pale buff. Habitat densely clustered, often in many hundreds, over the surface of conifer stumps and logs. Common. Found in Europe and widely distributed in North America. Season June-November. Not edible

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