The mushrooms












    
support our next site RogersFlowers.com

Pholiota bakerensis.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

Pholiota bakerensis Mushroom
Ref No: 8581
Buy this image
location: North America
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Grey to beige
normal size: Less than 5cm
cap type: Distinctly scaly
stem type: Ring on stem
flesh: Flesh granular or brittle
spore colour: Light to dark brown
habitat: Grows on wood

Pholiota bakerensis Smith & Hesler Cap 2-5cm across, broadly convex when young, then flatter with disc shallowly depressed in age, with an arched margin; yellowish tawny brown on the disc, paler, more fawn-colored toward the margin; sticky, opaque, with one or more rows of appressed hairy scales glued to the surface. Gills adnate, short decurrent by a tooth, close, edges saw-like; tawny olive. Stem 30-50 x 3-5mm, solid or hollowed by worms; clay color over lower part, surface pallid from thin coating of pale buff hairs; an evanescent hairy zone toward the top. Flesh thin, pliant; pale, watery brown. Odor faintly fragrant. Taste mild. Spores ellipsoid, smooth, tiny pore at apex, 7-9 x 4-5µ. Deposit cigar brown. Pleurocystidia abundant. Habitat scattered on conifer sticks. Found in Washington State. Season September. Not edible.

Members' images and comments

Click here to upload and share your photos and comments about this mushroom (JPEG only please).
By uploading images and text you hereby warrant that you are the legal owner of this material and agree, without limitation, to permit Rogers Plants Ltd to publish such images and text on this Rogers Plants website. Rogers Plants Ltd reserves the right to remove any member images or text at its sole discretion.
© 2001-2008 Rogers Plants Ltd. All rights reserved. The text and photographs on this site may not be reproduced in any form without the written permission of Rogers Plants Ltd. Please see our Terms and Conditions. Site by Glide Technologies Ltd. Poisoning Disclaimer.
Don't forget to visit our sister sites RogersRoses and RogersTreesandShrubs.