Laccaria laccata (Scop.) Fr.
Common Laccaria; Deceiver

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Description:
mushroom
Fruiting Body: cap 1.5-8 cm; stalk 5-10 cm long x 5-10 mm diameter, equal. Spore Print Color: white. Spores: basidiospores 7.5-10 x 7-8.5 µm, elliptical to subglobose, spiny, hyaline, not blue in Melzer's.

Diagnostic macroscopic feature: pinkish or tan colored mushroom on ground with wide-spaced waxy gills

Diagnostic microscopic feature: spiny subglobose spores that do not turn blue in Melzer's

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common

Nutritional Mode: ectomycorrhizal

Substrate: on ground

Habitat: oak hickory woods

Fruiting Season: summer, fall

  
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Order: Agaricales
 

 

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