Aspropaxillus giganteus (Sowerby) Kühner & Maire, (giant funnel)


2 Oct 2016 at OSGR: SU00 in Dorset, England

Record Summaryc. 30 toadstools in scrub under mixed trees beside metalled track
Found asFruitbody
Date2 October 2016
OS grid refOSGR: SU00
Lat/Lon50° 50’ N, 1° 60’ W
Vice CountyDorset, VC no: 9
CountryEngland

Notes:

5-17cm diam.

Smell: mealy

c. 30 caps over 2 metres.

Spores: smooth, ellipsoid-oblong, 7-8/4.5-5µm.

Spore print: white, amyloid.

The following literature was used to identify this find:

standard photographs and close-ups
standard photographs and close-ups:
macro-photographs
macro-photographs:
photomicrographs
photomicrographs:

Click on a thumbnail to see the preview, then click on that for the full-sized image

Creative Commons License
This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

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.

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)