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Melanoleuca cognata.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

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  • synonyms: Frühlings-Weichritterling, Spring Cavalier
    Melanoleuca cognata Mushroom
    Ref No: 8046
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    Melanoleuca cognata2 Mushroom
    Ref No: 8047
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    Melanoleuca cognata3 Mushroom
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    location: Europe
    edibility: Edible
    fungus colour: Grey to beige
    normal size: 5-15cm
    cap type: Convex to shield shaped
    stem type: Bulbous base of stem
    spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
    habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

    Melanoleuca cognata (Fr.) Konrad & Maubl. syn. Tricholoma cognatum (Fr.) Gillet Frühlings-Weichritterling Spring Cavalier. Cap 4–10(12)cm across, expanded convex and umbonate, ochre-brown to grey-brown, shiny. Stem 60–120 x 10–15mm, swollen at the base, cream flushed ochre to grey-brown. Flesh whitish to cream. Taste sweetish, smell floury. Gills ochraceous cream. Cheilocystidia thin-walled, hyaline, lanceolate, sometimes encrusted with crystals at apex. Spore print ochraceous cream. Spores elliptic, minutely warted, amyloid 9–10 x 5.5–6um. Habitat coniferous woods. Season spring and autumn. Occasional. Said to be edible. (Never eat any mushroom until you are certain it is edible as many are poisonous and some are deadly poisonous.) Found In Europe.

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