Clitopilus prunulus (Scop.) Kummer
Sweet-bread mushroom

From the Greek Klitos for sloping, and pilus for felt cap. Name refers to the decurrent gills of the felty cap. Prunus means plum

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Description:
mushroom
Fruiting Body: cap 5-10 cm; stalk central to eccentric, 3-8 cm long x 5-15 mm diameter. Spore Print Color: pinkish buff. Spores: basidiospores 10-12 x 5-7 µm, elliptical to subfusiform, with longitudinal grooves, pinkish, inamyloid.

Diagnostic macroscopic feature: whitish mushroom with smooth stalk and pinkish buff spore print growing on ground in woods

Diagnostic microscopic feature: spores have three longitudianl grooves

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throughout North Americasomewhat common

Nutritional Mode: saprobe

Substrate: on ground

Habitat: deciduous or coniferous woods

Fruiting Season: summer

  
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Order: Agaricales
 

 

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