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Omphalina ectypoides.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

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  • Ref No: 9280
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    location: North America
    edibility: Inedible
    fungus colour: Brown, Grey to beige
    normal size: 5-15cm
    cap type: Funnel shaped
    stem type: Simple stem
    spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
    habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on wood

    Omphalina ectypoides (Pk.) Bigelow syn. Clitocybe ectypoides (Pk.) Sacc. Cap 2-6cm across, sunken on the disc, funnel-shaped with a spreading, wavy margin; ochraceous; minutely scaly with brownish black hairs, moist. Gills decurrent, almost distant, narrow, some forked; yellowish. Stem 20-65 x 2-9mm, sometimes eccentric, expanding toward the base; honey yellow staining olivaceous to brownish on handling; slightly wrinkled. Flesh thin. Odor mild. Taste mild. Spores ellipsoid, smooth, amyloid, 6.5-8 x 3.5-5ì. Deposit white. Habitat on rotting conifer logs, particularly hemlock. Common but not abundant. Found in northeastern North America, west to the Great Lakes and south to North Carolina; also in the Pacific Northwest. Season July-September. Edibility not known -avoid.

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