Record Summary | growing among Heather and birch |
Found as | Fruitbody |
Date | 26 August 2002 |
OS grid ref | OSGR: SU56 |
Lat/Lon | 51° 20’ N, 1° 10’ W |
Vice County | Berks, VC no: 22 |
Country | England |
Voucher | 26 Aug 2002[A] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
Notes:
Among Calluna vulgaris near small Betula spp.
Smell: sweet, spicey.
Taste: slightly bitter.
Spore print: pinkish "F" (=pale pinkish "buff"), dextrinoid.
Cap: whitish developing "cinnamon" tones.
Spores: subspherical to lacrymiform, with single large oil drops.
No thick-walled resting spores seen in print.
Basidia: with basal clamps.
Gill trama of clamped cylindric hyphae.
The following literature was used to identify this find:
Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioImages website by Malcolm Storey is licensed under the above Creative Commons Licence.
Photographs from other photographers are used with permission but not included under the above CC licence.