Record Summary | three clumps on old, dead, fallen, pine trunk |
Found as | Fruitbody |
Date | 8 July 2018 |
Associated organism | Pinus |
OS grid ref | OSGR: SU00 |
Lat/Lon | 50° 50’ N, 1° 60’ W |
Vice County | Dorset, VC no: 9 |
Country | England |
Notes:
Quite a tough toadstool. The clumps each grow from a common swollen rootstock.
Gill: decurrent in young fruitbodies; edge: eroded, saw-toothed. Ring not evident.
Smell: rank mealy, sour.
Spore print: white, non-amyloid.
Spores: narrowly ellipsoid, hyaline.
Growing healthily after three weeks of very hot dry weather with almost no rain. Quickly gave a generous spore print.
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