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Baeospora myriadophylla.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

Baespora myriadophylla Mushroom
Ref No: 6725
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location: North America
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Violet or purple, Grey to beige
normal size: Less than 5cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
stem type: Stem much longer than cap diameter, Simple stem
flesh: Flesh fibrous usually pliable (like grass)
habitat: Grows on wood, Grows on plant material/manure

Baeospora myriadophylla (Pk.) Singer Cap I-4cm across, convex becoming flat or sometimes sunken in the center, with an incurved margin becoming wavy and uplifted in age; lavender or brownish mauve, becoming more dingy yellowish brown or pale buff in age; smooth, moist. Gills adnate or nearly free, close to crowded, narrow; similar color to cap. Stem 10-50 x 1-3mm, stuffed to hollow, pliant, tough; similar color to cap; dry, often grooved becoming smooth, with long, coarse hairs at the base. Flesh tough; grayish. Spores broadly ellipsoid, smooth, amyloid, 3.5-4.5 x 2-3ì. Deposit white. Habitat in small groups or clustered on decaying wood, especially poplar and hemlock. Found in northern North America. Season June-October. Not edible.

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