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Pluteus semibulbosus.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Knolliger Dachpilz
Pluteus semibulbosus Mushroom
Ref No: 8776
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location: Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: White to cream
normal size: Less than 5cm
cap type: Conical or nearly so
stem type: Bulbous base of stem
spore colour: Pink
habitat: Grows on wood

Pluteus semibulbosus (Lasch apud Fr.) Gillet s. Lange Knolliger Dachpilz. Cap 1.5–5cm across, bell-shaped to obtusely convex, white tinged pale flesh-colour when moist, radiately wrinkled and as if powdered with mica flakes. Stem 20–30´3–7mm, bulbous, white. Flesh white. Gills white at first, later pink. Pleurocystidia thin-walled, hyaline, bottle-shaped. Spore print pink. Spores broadly ovate to subglobose, 6–7´5–5.5m. Cap cuticle of sphaeropedunculate cells. Habitat on rotting sawdust or wood of deciduous trees. Season autumn. Rare. Edibility unknown -avoid. Found In Europe.

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