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  • synonyms: Sandegerling
    Agaricus devoniensis Mushroom
    Ref No: 6840
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    location: Europe
    edibility: Edible
    fungus colour: White to cream
    normal size: 5-15cm
    cap type: Convex to shield shaped
    stem type: Ring on stem
    spore colour: Purplish to black
    habitat: Grows on the ground

    Agaricus devoniensis Orton syn. Psalliota arenicola Wakef. & Pearson, Sandegerling Cap 3–12cm across, convex to flattened-convex, whitish and silky tinted pinkish or violaceous. Stem 30–40 x 10–15mm, white covered in scaly remnants of the veil, bruising reddish; ring sheathing, white and short-lived. Flesh white, tinted pink above the gills and in the lower stem. Taste and smell mushroomy but not distinctive. Gills free, greyish pink darkening with age. Cheilocystidia thin-walled, tufted, clavate, hyaline or brownish, 36–50 x 10–13µ. Spore print dark brown. Spores subglobose, 6.5–7 x 5–5.5µ. Habitat on sand dunes, only noticeable after the expanded cap has pushed up through the sand. Season late summer to autumn. Rare. Edible. Found In Europe.

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