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Purple-Gilled Laccaria
Laccaria ochropurpurea
34.58, -84.69
Field Notes
Description:
Large, white to gray-capped mushroom with striking purple gills. Stipe is also white to gray and fairly smooth. Spore print is white.
Laccaria ochropurpurea is mycorrhizal with hardwoods (and some conifers).
Habitat:
Top of forest ridge, growing in leaf litter, decaying wood, and moss (under chestnut oak trees). In a dense mixed hardwood forest in Northwest Georgia.
Reference Links:
Laccaria ochropurpurea - Wikipedia
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PublishedNovember 4, 2017
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