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Phaeocollybia attenuata??.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

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  • Phaeocollybia similis Mushroom
    Ref No: 8544
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    location: North America
    edibility: Inedible
    fungus colour: Yellow, Red or redish or pink
    normal size: Less than 5cm
    cap type: Conical or nearly so
    stem type: Stem much longer than cap diameter
    flesh: Mushroom has distinct or odd smell (non mushroomy), Mushroom slimy or sticky
    spore colour: Rusty brown
    habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

    Phaeocollybia attenuata or possibly an unnamed variant (Loreli Norvell has done her doctorate work on this genus and has emailed me this correction) Cap 1.5-3.5cm across, obtusely cone-shaped expanding to convex and then becoming flatter with a slight umbo; amber yellow to cinnamon or rusty red; smooth, moist, naked. Gills nearly free, crowded, moderately broad; dark, dull ochraceous tawny in maturity. Stem 60-100 x 1-3mm, tapering downward into a long root-like base; pale yellow-brown at the top, becoming very dark and almost black at the base; smooth, polished. Flesh thin, firm; yellowy buff. Odor strong, sweet to nauseating. Taste bitter. Spores ellipsoid to pip-shaped, warty, 7.5-8.7 x 5.4-6.2µ. Deposit rusty brown. Habitat in groups in virgin forest. Rare. Found in the Pacific Northwest. Season September-October. Not edible. Comment My spores are a little smaller than those described by Alexander H. Smith.

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