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Pleurotellus porrigens.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Angel Wings, Ohrförmiger Seitling, Pleurocybella porrigens
Pleurocybella porrigens Mushroom
Ref No: 8732
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Pleurotellus porrigens Mushroom
Ref No: 8735
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location: North America, Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: White to cream
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Other
stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows on wood

Pleurotellus porrigens (Pers. ex Fr.) Kühn. & Romagn. syn. Pleurocybella porrigens (Pers. ex Fr.) Singer syn. Pleurotus porrigens (Pers. ex Fr.) Kummer Ohrförmiger Seitling Angel Wings. Cap 2–10cm across, white, sessile, tongue-shaped, the margin becoming wavy and lobed with age, but fruit bodies often much distorted by mutual pressure. Flesh white. Gills ivory white. Spores subglobose, 5–6m. Habitat rotting wood, frequently on partly buried moss-covered branches forming dense clusters. Season autumn. In Britain restricted to coniferous woodland in the Scottish highlands. Poisonous. In the past this has been thought of as an edible species, but there have been reported a number of fatalities from Japan. Distribution, America and Europe.

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