Friday, January 20, 2017

At Your Own Risk- Mushroom

Common Name: None 

Latin Name: Cystoderma granosum (Morg.) A.H. Sm. & Singer




Width of cap: 1- 3 1/2 in
Cap: Convex; dull orange to ocraceous orange; surface dry, granular, sometimes wrinkled; Flesh white
Gills: Adnate to slightly adnexed, crowded; white to pale tan.
Stalk: More or less equal or tapering upward from a swollen base; surface granular from the base up to a flaring ring on the upper stalk, smooth above the ring; colored like the cap below the ring, whitish to pale brown above. 
Spore Print: White
Occurrence: Solitary or more often in small groups, at times in caespitose clusters on decaying wood of broad-leaved trees, especially beech, birch, and maple; saprobic; late summer-fall; occasional.
Edibility: UNKNOWN. 

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