Craterellus sinuosus (Fr.:Fr.) Fr. |
The cap is grey-brown to very pallid grey, very hygrophanous, trumpet- or funnel-shaped, usually without a hole in the centre, irregular; its margin is paler, very wavy-curly, lobed. The cap surface is smooth to slightly flaky, not viscid nor sticky, but hygrophanous. The stem is sandy to buff, then whitish, hollow, tapering towards base, a single stem often shared by several caps, without ring. The flesh is thin, whitish, unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is faint, fruity; its texture is fibrous. The gills are whitish to grey, paler and creamier than stem, but these are not gills, but veins or ridges, sometimes interconnected by smaller veins, quite distant, decurrent and forked . The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, sometimes in small tufts of a few samples, in the grass, with broad-leaved woods, on a rather loamy and sandy soil, with oak, beech. The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Chemical tests : none. Distinctive features : Brown then ash-grey cap, hygrophanous, lobed and very wavy, with a paler margin; fertile surface composed of grey to whitish veins or ridges; with broad-leaved trees Craterellus sinuosus is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking . | ||
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