Record Summary | 6 white toadstools in grass on the ground under Cherry trees |
Found as | Fruitbody |
Date | 2 May 2004 |
OS grid ref | OSGR: TQ96 |
Lat/Lon | 51° 20’ N, 0° 50’ E |
Vice County | West Kent, VC no: 16 |
County | Kent |
Country | England |
Voucher | 2 May 2004[J] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
Notes:
Cap: buff and whitish, zoned, like Clitocybe rivulosa.
Gills: very crowded.
Smell: strongly cyanic; taste: strongly mushroomy, rancid.
Spore print: white on surrounding grass; cream on paper, BFF: "C", amyloid.
Spores: 8-10/5-6µm, rough on outline under x40 obj., warty in Melzer’s Iodine, with a ring of granules around the plage.
Basidia: 4-spored.
Cheilocystidia: septate, with long narrow barbed apex.
[ 'BFF' = British Fungus Flora colour chart ]The following literature was used to identify this find:
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