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  • Peziza atrovinosa Mushroom
    Ref No: 8516
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    location: North America
    edibility: Inedible
    fungus colour: Brown, Black or blackish
    normal size: Less than 5cm
    cap type: Cup shaped
    stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent
    flesh: Flesh granular or brittle
    spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
    habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

    Peziza atrovinosa Cke. & Gerard Cup 2-5cm across, quite deeply cup-shaped, sometimes becoming contorted in age or from pressure of overlapping cups; inner surface brown becoming almost black with an olivaceous tinge from a dusting of spores, outer surface cinnamon brown to smoky. No stem. Asci 275 x 14µ. Spores ellipsoid, smooth, containing 1 or 2 oil drops. 10 x 15-17µ. Habitat in groups or sometimes dense clusters on the ground or among moss in woods. Rather common. Found in eastern North America arid Montana. Season June-September. Not edible.

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