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Clitocybe connata
Clitocybe connata (also called dilatata)
49.2601, -122.512
Field Notes
Description:
Beautiful large white mushrooms about 4 inches across the cap, 3 in a cluster, 1 separate, stipe about 4 inches long, white with black flecks forming, bulbous, gills white adnate, spore print creamy white. Faint mushroom-y smell.
Habitat:
Bare ground with grass and new forming blackberry vines in a goat pen on our property. Temperate westcoast rainforest, Maple Ridge, BC.
Notes:
Photo 4 shows the spore print on pink paper. The white paper spore print was so faint. Photo 3 shows the vertical slice through the stipe and cap to show the adnate gill structure. I really loved these beautiful mushrooms. If they are Clitocybe connata, they may contain muscarine and other bioactive compounds.
Species ID Suggestions
Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedSeptember 2, 2013
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