Rogers Mushrooms - Gerronema strombodes Mushroom


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Gerronema strombodes. Click a photo to enlarge it. back to list

Ref No: 7787
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location: North America

edibility: Inedible

fungus colour: Yellow, Green, Grey to beige

normal size: 5-15cm

cap type: Funnel shaped

spore colour: White, cream or yellowish

habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on wood

Gerronema strombodes (Berk. & Montague) Singer Cap 2.5-6cm across, convex becoming centrally depressed; gray to gray-brown, sometimes yellowish toward the margin; smooth, darkly and innately striate. Gills decurrent, distant, broad; yellowish white to whitish. Stem 30-60 x 3-7 mm; whitish, yellowish, or grayish; longitudinally hairy. Taste mild to bitterish. Spores ellipsoid, smooth, nonamyloid, 7.5-9 x 3-5.5ė. Deposit whitish. Clamps present. Habitat on deciduous and coniferous tree trunks. Rare. Found in West Virginia and probably other areas. Season August-September. Edibility not known avoid.

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