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Melanoleuca alboflavida.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

Melanoleuca alboflavida Mushroom
Ref No: 8043
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location: North America
edibility: Edible
fungus colour: White to cream, Grey to beige
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
stem type: Bulbous base of stem
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground, Found in fields, lawns or on roadsides

Melanoleuca alboflavida (Pk.) Murr. Cap 3-10cm across, broadly convex becoming flatter then often depressed with a low, broad umbo; margin incurved at first; yellowish brown to cream or whitish, the umbo remaining darker; smooth, dry to moist. Gills sinuate, crowded, narrow; whitish. Stem 30-100 x 4-l0mm, slender with a small bulb at the base, whitish, cartilaginous, longitudinally lined with minute hairs. Flesh solid; white. Spores ellipsoid to ovoid, ornamented with small warts, 7-9 x 4-5.5ì. Deposit white. Habitat singly or in groups on the ground in deciduous or mixed woods and in open fields. Common. Found in northeastern North America, west to the Great Lakes. Season July-September. Said to be edible.

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