Record Summary | Under Oak |
Found as | Fruitbody |
Date | 27 September 2001 |
Associated organism | Quercus robur |
OS grid ref | OSGR: SU56 |
Lat/Lon | 51° 30’ N, 1° 10’ W |
Vice County | Berks, VC no: 22 |
Country | England |
Voucher | 27 Sep 2001[M] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
Notes:
Growing near 27/9/01 [P], with intermediates nearby.
Cap: "cigar brown" in centre, paler outwards to "milky coffee", paler in interstices; tuberculate, sulcate, pectinate; 30% peeling.
Smell: unpleasant.
Taste: hot.
Stipe: very pale "smoke grey", tinged and spotting "saffron" at the base, fusiform, Fe+ grey-brown, (colour of cap); KOH: no reaction; formalin: no reaction.
Spore print: "D".
Spores: 7-8.5/5.5-6µm, warts ≤0.6µm, irregularly spaced and sized; several connectives, the occasional mesh; plage indistinct, with small warts.
Cap cuticle: a few dermatocystidia weakly staining in sulphovanillin, pointed, narrowly conical cells, other cells clavate, appendiculate, septate.
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