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conifercone cap

baeospora myosura

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Field Notes

Description:

location: North America, Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: White to cream
normal size: Less than 5cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
stem type: Stem much longer than cap diameter, Simple stem
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows on plant material/manure

( http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/gallery/DisplayBlock~bid~5351~gid~~sourc… )

Habitat:

Baeospora myosura (Fr. ex Fr.) Sprig. Zapfenrübling Conifercone Cap syn. Collybia myosura (Fr. ex Fr.) Quél. syn. C. conigena (Pers. ex Fr.) Kummer Cap 1–3cm across, convex to almost flat, pallid-tan to date-brown. Stem 30–50´1–2mm, pallid flushed with cap colour, elongated into a hairy ‘root’. Flesh thin, brownish. Taste mild, smell mushroomy. Gills very crowded, whitish. Cheilocystida thin-walled, fusoid. Spore print white. Spores elliptic, amyloid, 3–3.5 x 1.5–2µ. Habitat rooting on partly buried pine cones and coniferous debris. Season autumn to late winter. Frequent. Not edible. Distribution, America and Europe.
---- Solitary to clustered on cones of Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), and Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis); fruiting from late fall to mid-winter ( http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Baeospora_myosura.html )

Notes:

Baeospora myosura is a species of fungus that produces mushrooms with long, coarse hairs. It grows on plant material and manure. It is white to cream and the spore color is white, cream, or yellowish. It is commonly found in North America and Europe. The common name of the mushroom is conifercone cap. It was described in 1938 by mycologist Rolf Singer

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