Rogers Mushrooms - Melanophyllum echinatum Mushroom


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Melanophyllum echinatum. Click a photo to enlarge it. back to list

synonyms: Stacheliger Schirnpilz

Ref No: 8056
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location: North America, Europe

edibility: Inedible

fungus colour: Grey to beige

normal size: Less than 5cm

cap type: Convex to shield shaped

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

spore colour: Pink

habitat: Grows on the ground

Melanophyllum echinatum (Roth ex Fr.) Sing. syn. Syn M. haematospermum (Bull.) Kreis. Lepiota echinata (Roth ex Fr.) Quél. syn. L. haematosperma (Bull. ex Fr.) Quél. s. Fr. Stacheliger Schirnpilz. Cap 1–3cm across, conico-convex becoming bell-shaped and finally expanded, granulate-mealy all over, dirty grey-brown, margin shaggy with velar remains. Stem 20–40 x 1–3mm, vinaceous pink, covered in greyish-brown meal. Flesh thin, whitish in cap, vinaceous in stem darkening towards the base. Smell strong. Gills deep pink at first soon discolouring vinaceous or brownish-pink. Spore print pallid, dirty grey becoming reddish. Spores elliptic-subcylindric, 5–6 x 2.5–3.5um. Mealy covering of cap formed of brown sphaerocysts. Habitat on burnt ground, or the rich soil of flowerbeds or compost heaps. Season spring to summer. Rare. Not edible. Distribution, America and Europe.

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