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

synonyms: Graubrauner Schüppling
Pholiota myosotis 3 Mushroom
Ref No: 8708
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Pholiota myosotis Mushroom
Ref No: 8709
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Pholiota myosotis2 Mushroom
Ref No: 8710
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location: Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Brown, Grey to beige
normal size: Less than 5cm
stem type: Stem much longer than cap diameter
flesh: Mushroom has distinct or odd smell (non mushroomy), Mushroom slimy or sticky
spore colour: Light to dark brown
habitat: Grows on the ground, Grows on plant material/manure

Pholiota myosotis (Fr. ex Fr.) Sing. syn. Naucoria myosotis (Fr. ex Fr.) Kummer syn. Flammula myosotis (Fr. ex Fr.) Sing. Graubrauner Schüppling. Cap 1.5–3cm across, convex becoming flattened or irregularly wavy, smooth, olive-brown, viscid. Stem 70–110 x 2–5mm, elongated and fragile, rooting, dirty yellowish at apex, concolorous with cap below. Flesh whitish with yellow tinge, becoming hollow in stem. Smell slightly mealy. Gills dingy clay- to olive-brown with a paler edge. Cheilocystidia, thin-walled, hyaline, bottle-shaped; pleurocystidia clavate with mucronate apex, staining deeply in aniline blue in lactic acid. Spore print snuff brown. Spores almond-shaped, smooth, 14.5–19 x 7–9um. Habitat in moist peaty ground usually in sphagnum. Season autumn. Occasional. Edibility unknown –avoid. Found In Europe.

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