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Xerula rubrobrunnescens.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

Xerula rubrobrunnescens Mushroom
Ref No: 9670
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location: North America
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Brown
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
stem type: Stem much longer than cap diameter
flesh: Flesh discolours when cut, bruised or damaged
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Xerula rubrobrunnescens Redhead, Ginns, & Shoemaker Cap 2.5-8cm across, convex becoming flat with a distinct. broad umbo; rust to cinnamon with mid-brown or honey patches; moist, smooth in the center, wrinkled elsewhere. Gills broadly adnate, moderately distant, 2 lacers; white with rusty-colored edges, bruising darker. Stem 80-1 15 x 2-20mm, enlarging slightly toward the base, sometimes twisted, long rooting base; white, staining rust when bruised or cut. Odor not distinctive. Taste not distinctive. Spores lemon-shaped to almond-shaped, with a prominent apiculus, finely roughened, nonamyloid, 13.5-16 x 8-9um. Deposit white. Habitat singly or in groups on buried roots in mixed forests. Quite rare. Found in northeastern North America, south to Virginia. Season ,July-September. Edibility not known.

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