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| location: North America |
| edibility: Inedible |
| fungus colour: Yellow, Red or redish or pink |
| normal size: Less than 5cm |
| cap type: Other |
| stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent |
| flesh: Flesh discolours when cut, bruised or damaged, Mushroom has distinct or odd smell (non mushroomy) |
| spore colour: Olivaceous |
| habitat: Grows in woods, Grows underground |
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Rhizopogon occidentalis Zeller & Dodge, Fruit body 1-5cm across, irregularly potato-shaped or pear-shaped; whitish at first, then lemon yellow in age, bruising orange or reddish brown; minutely hairs' with loose, cordlike brownish rhizomorphs. Spore mass minutely chambered; pale yellow-orange, drying cinnamon buff. Odor of sourdough. Spores ellipsoid, smooth, 5.5-7 x 2.3-2.6µ. Habitat singly or scattered in sandy soil under mixed conifers. Found in the Pacific Northwest, Idaho, and California. Season May-September. Not edible. |
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