Record Summary | under Birch |
Found as | Fruitbody |
Date | 21 September 2002 |
Associated organism | Betula |
OS grid ref | OSGR: SU76 |
Lat/Lon | 51° 20’ N, 0° 60’ W |
Vice County | North Hants, VC no: 12 |
Country | England |
Voucher | 21 Sep 2002[C] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
Notes:
Cap: 75, 9cm diam.
Smell: bitter almonds.
Taste: gills nasty then hot.
Stem flesh + KOH: pink then rusty.
Cap flesh + KOH: yellowish in one spot, elsewhere unchanged.
Stem: discoloured where handled.
Spore print: BFF: "D", Kibby: "C"
Kibby: CIKNQSV
Spores: with warts c. 0.6µm high.
Dermatocystidia: cylindric, SV-, eg 75µm long.
[ 'BFF' = British Fungus Flora colour chart ]The following literature was used to identify this find:
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