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19 Records
Status
Found solitary or in small groups on debarked conifers.
Description
Cap: Yellowish base color with blackish pointed fibrous scales; convex to nearly flat, sometimes with a central depression; margin irregular/wavy; flesh yellow, jelly-like. Gills: yellow, crowded. Stalk: Yellow; tiny blackish scales; hollow; flesh yellowish (J. Solem, pers. comm.).
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Decorated Mop (fruiting bodies) in Howard Co., Maryland (8/11/2009).
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Joanne Solem.
Decorated Mop in Prince George's Co., Maryland (10/4/2018). Determined by Jo Solem.
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Anne Looker.
Decorated Mop in Prince George's Co., Maryland (8/17/2019). Determined by Jo Solem.
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Anne Looker.
Decorated Mop (gills) in Howard Co., Maryland (8/24/2009).
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Robert Solem.
Decorated Mop in Prince George's Co., Maryland (8/17/2019). Determined by Jo Solem.
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Anne Looker.
Decorated Mop in Howard Co., Maryland (9/15/2017). (c) Joanne and Robert Solem, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).
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Decorated Mop in Howard Co., Maryland (9/15/2017). (c) Joanne and Robert Solem, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).
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Decorated Mop in Howard Co., Maryland (9/15/2017). (c) Joanne and Robert Solem, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).
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Spores of Decorated Mop in Howard Co., Maryland (9/15/2017). (c) Joanne and Robert Solem, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).
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Spores collected from a Decorated Mop specimen in Howard Co., Maryland (8/11/2009). Ellipsoid, smooth; measured 6.3-7.0 X 4.8-5.2 microns.
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Robert Solem.
Source: Wikipedia
Tricholomopsis decora | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Agaricales |
Family: | Tricholomataceae |
Genus: | Tricholomopsis |
Species: | T. decora
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Binomial name | |
Tricholomopsis decora (Fr.) Singer 1939
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Synonyms | |
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Tricholomopsis decora | |
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Gills on hymenium | |
Cap is convex or depressed | |
Hymenium is adnate | |
Stipe is bare | |
Spore print is white | |
Ecology is saprotrophic | |
Edibility is unknown |
Tricholomopsis decora, commonly known as prunes and custard,[1] is a species of gilled mushroom in the genus Tricholomopsis. It occurs in North America and in Britain, and it grows in conifer forests.[2] It is regarded as nonpoisonous.[3]
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Phillips R (2013). Mushrooms. Macmillan. ASIN B00F0KT89O.
- ^ "Tricholomopsis decora in Mycobank".
- ^ Miller Jr., Orson K.; Miller, Hope H. (2006). North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi. Guilford, CN: FalconGuide. p. 160. ISBN 978-0-7627-3109-1.
External links
[edit]- Media related to Tricholomopsis decora at Wikimedia Commons
- Data related to Tricholomopsis decora at Wikispecies