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Ivory Funnel


Ivory Funnel
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Copyright: Tairi Tappo (uduputuk) Silver Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Silver Note Writer [C: 28 W: 24 N: 42] (226)
Genre: Fungi
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-10
Categories: Fungi
Exposure: f/2.8, 1/20 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2006-11-02 11:43
Viewed: 806
Points: 2
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Class: Basidiomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Tricholomataceae
Species: Clitocybe dealbata (in English: ivory funnel, in Estonian: niitlehtrik)

Location: North America, Europe
Edibility: deadly
Fungus colour: white to cream
Normal size: less than 5cm
Cap type: funnel shaped
Flesh: mushroom has distinct or odd smell (non mushroomy)
Spore colour: white, cream or yellowish
Habitat: grows on the ground

Cap 2–4cm across, flattened-convex becoming slightly depressed, buff dusted white. Stem 20–35 x 5–10mm, whitish, mealy at the apex. Flesh thin except for the centre of the cap, whitish. Smell faint, mealy. Gills adnate to decurrent, crowded, whitish or cream. Spore print white. Spores broadly ovate, 4–5.5 x 2–3ě. Habitat in lawns and pastureland often in troops or rings. Season summer to late autumn. Frequent. (source)
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Muy original y bellisima composición de estos clitocybes, luz y texturas muy buenas. Un saludo

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