Auriscalpium vulgare S.F. Gray |
The cap is kidney-shaped or flat-convex, grey-brown, covered with brown to dark chestnut-brown hairs, with a lateral stem, brittle, downu, dark brown, slender. The flesh is whitish, to almost the same colour as the skin; its taste is mild to slightly acrid; the odour is faint. The fertile surface is made of spines. The spore print is white.It grows on (buried) wood, in coniferous woods, mostly on pine cones, on a rather calcareous, but also acid soil, with pine, spruce. The fruiting period takes place all year long.
Chemical tests : none. Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet Auriscalpium vulgare is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking . | ||
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