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Xeromphalina tenuipes.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

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  • Xeromphalina tenuipes Mushroom
    Ref No: 9667
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    location: North America
    edibility: Inedible
    fungus colour: Orange
    normal size: 5-15cm
    cap type: Conical or nearly so
    stem type: Stem much longer than cap diameter
    flesh: Flesh fibrous usually pliable (like grass)
    spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
    habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on wood

    Xeromphalina tenuipes (Schw.) Smith Cap 2-7cm across, broadly conical at first, quickly becoming flat to depressed with a very wavy margin; orange-brown with an olive-brown tinge when fresh; dry, velvety, becoming somewhat wrinkled with a striate margin. Gills adnate, distant; white becoming pale yellow. Stem 50-80 x 3-8mm, hollow, sometimes with a root-like extension into the soil; similar color to the cap; velvety to minutely hairy. Flesh pliant, watery brown. Spores smooth, amyloid, 7-9 x 4.5-5um. Deposit white. Habitat singly or in clusters on hardwood logs and stumps. Quite common. Found in eastern North America, west to the Great Plains. Season April-July. Not edibile.

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