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Hygrocybe subglobispora.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Hygrophore amène, Rotrandiger Saftling
Hygrocybe subglobispora Mushroom
Ref No: 7986
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Hygrocybe subglobispora2 Mushroom
Ref No: 7987
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location: Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Yellow, Orange
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Conical or nearly so
stem type: Simple stem
flesh: Mushroom slimy or sticky
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows on the ground, Found in fields, lawns or on roadsides

Hygrocybe subglobispora Orton syn. H. amoena f. silvatica Haller & Métrod Rotrandiger Saftling Hygrophore amène. Cap 2–7cm across, conical and irregularly lobed with a distinct umbo, bright chrome yellow flushed orange especially towards the margin, viscid when moist, drying silky. Stem 30–90 x 7–12mm, concolorous with the cap paling to lemon above the white base which has a tendency to bruise brownish-black. Flesh white in the centre of cap and stem, yellow below the cap cuticle, the stem soon hollow. Smell none. Gills free, pale lemon, edge white. Spore print white. Spores broadly ovoid to subglobose, 8–12 x 6–10um. Basidia either two- or four-spored. Habitat grassland and woods. Season early summer to autumn. Rare. Edibility unknown -avoid. Found In Europe.

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