Clitopilus prunulus    (Scop.:Fr.) P. Kumm. 

common name(s) : The Miller, Sweetbread Mushroom 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Entolomataceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Pluteales/Entolomaceae  

synonyms: Paxillopsis prunulus 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Pleurotus prunulus, Clitopilus orcella)  

edibility : edible, good

photo gallery of Clitopilus prunulus
photo gallery of Clitopilus prunulus potential confusions with Clitopilus prunulus toxicity of Clitopilus prunulus genus Clitopilus  

The cap is pearl grey then whitish. The cap surface is smooth, viscid or sticky in wet weather.

The stem is white, without ring.

The flesh is white, unchanging; its taste is mealy; the odour is strong, mealy; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are white then pink, decurrent, crowded . The spore print is pink. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved and coniferous woods, grassland, forest edges, with hornbeam, beech, ash, pine, spruce.

The fruiting period takes place from April to December.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 8 cm (between 2 and 15 cm)
  height of stem approximately 4 cm (between 1.5 and 8 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 9 mm (between 4 and 15 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : Cap with irregular shape, white to pearl grey; strong mealy odour; stem often off-centre; gills white then pink, decurrent, easily separated from cap; brittle flesh ; rooting in ground and not in leaf litter

Clitopilus prunulus is frequent and very widely present in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Clitopilus prunulus in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Clitopilus prunulus in the forest of Rambouillet



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