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Panaeolus speciosus.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

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  • synonyms: Schaf-Düngerling
    Panaeolus speciosus Mushroom
    Ref No: 8461
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    edibility: Inedible
    fungus colour: Grey to beige
    normal size: 5-15cm
    cap type: Conical or nearly so
    stem type: Stem much longer than cap diameter
    spore colour: Purplish to black
    habitat: Grows on plant material/manure

    Panaeolus speciosus Orton Schaf-Düngerling. Cap 2–7cm across, conical to convex, buff or dull brown at first becoming more greyish with darker olivaceous-brown zone near the margin, tinged ochraceous or tawny at the centre, drying greyish or buff, cracking. Stem 70–175 x 2–5mm, whitish tinged tawny or greyish-pink, base dusted white. Flesh concolorous with cap, hollow in stem. Smell faint, mushroomy. Gills adnate, clay-buff becoming mottled blackish. Spore print blackish. Spores angular lemon-shaped, 14–20 x 8–10 x 10–12um. Habitat on horse or sheep dung. Season late summer to autumn. Uncommon. Edibility unknown-avoid. Found In Europe.

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