Rogers Mushrooms - Hohenbuehelia geogenia Mushroom


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Hohenbuehelia geogenia. Click a photo to enlarge it. back to list

synonyms: Erd-Muschelseitling, Pleurote terrestre

Ref No: 7917
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Ref No: 7918
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location: North America, Europe

edibility: Edible

fungus colour: Grey to beige

normal size: 5-15cm

cap type: Funnel shaped

stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent

flesh: Mushroom has distinct or odd smell (non mushroomy)

spore colour: White, cream or yellowish

habitat: Grows on wood

Hohenbuehelia geogenia (DC. ex Fr.) Sing. syn. Pleurotus geogenius (DC. ex Fr.) Gillet syn. Geopetalum geogenium (DC. ex Fr.) Kühn. & Romagn. Erd-Muschelseitling Pleurote terrestre. Cap 3–16cm across, tongue-, spatula- or funnel-shaped but split down one side, margin incurved at first then wavy and lobed, ochre-buff to hazel brown, with a somewhat gelatinous skin and covered towards the stem with white down. Stem 5–10 x 5–10mm, excentric, whitish, tough. Flesh whitish, tough. Taste and smell mealy. Gills decurrent, white at first, later creamy-yellow. Pleurocystidia thick-walled, lanceolate and apically encrusted. Spore print white. Spores elliptic, 7–7.5 x 3.5–4um. Habitat on stumps or decaying wood of deciduous trees. Season autumn. Rare. Edible. Found In America and Europe.

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Fernand Therrien (Canada) - 15 June 2010 Would you please confirm this identification: hydropus ... Thanks for your help. Fernandth

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