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

synonyms: Blassgrüner Schüppling
Pholiota ochrochlora Mushroom
Ref No: 8711
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Pholiota ochrochlora2 Mushroom
Ref No: 8712
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Pholiota ochrochlora3 Mushroom
Ref No: 8713
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location: Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: White to cream, Green, Grey to beige
normal size: Less than 5cm
cap type: Distinctly scaly
stem type: Ring on stem
flesh: Mushroom slimy or sticky
spore colour: Rusty brown
habitat: Grows on wood

Pholiota ochrochlora (Fr.) Orton Blassgrüner Schüppling Cap 2–5cm across, convex then expanded or slightly depressed, initially slightly viscid but soon dry, pale straw-coloured or tinged greenish at the margin, covered in straw-yellow to olivaceous pointed scales especially at the centre, margin with velar remnants at first. Stem 25–50 x 4–8mm, apex whitish, straw-yellow below darkening to rust at the base, covered in reflexed straw-coloured or greenish scales below the indistinct ring zone. Flesh whitish to yellowish in cap becoming brownish in stem base. Taste mild, smell none. Gills whitish-yellow becoming ochre or tinged olivaceous, finally cinnamon. Spore print rust-brown. Spores elliptic to ovoid, 6–8 x 4–5um. Habitat in small clusters on wood. Season autumn. Occasional. Edibility unknown –avoid. Found In Europe.

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