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Lyophyllum luteogriseascens.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

Lyophyllum luteogriseacens Mushroom
Ref No: 9479
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location: North America
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Black or blackish, Grey to beige
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
stem type: Simple stem
flesh: Flesh discolours when cut, bruised or damaged
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Lyophyllum luteogriseascens Clemenceau & Smith Cap 3-6cm across, obtuse to convex expanding to almost flat, with a margin inrolled at first; creamy white staining yellowish and finally grayish all over; moist, smooth, cracking when dry. Gills broadly adnate, subdistant; whitish staining orangish yellow then gray. Stem 20-40 x 10mm, club-shaped; creamy white, but staining like the gills and sooty brown when dried; smooth, but with a faint bloom at the top. Flesh pallid to yellowish bruising orangish. Odor distinctly resembling fresh green corn. Taste mild. Spores broadly fusoid, smooth, nonamyloid, 6-10.2 x 3.6-6ì. Deposit whitish. Habitat singly in hardwood mixed forests. Found in Michigan and New Jersey. Season, July. Edibility not known. Comment Note the distinctive way this mushroom bruises blackish.

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