Entoloma aprile    (Britzelm.) Sacc. 

common name(s) : April Pinkgill, April Entoloma 

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

synonyms: Entoloma aprilis, Rhodophyllus aprilis 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Entoloma majale)  

edibility : discard

potential confusions with  Entoloma aprile toxicity of Entoloma aprile genus Entoloma  

The cap is greyish-brown, dark when damp, paler when dry, convex, with a central umbo; its margin is striate to wavy. The cap surface is smooth, viscid in wet weather.

The stem is whitish to pale brown grey, soon hollow, without ring.

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

The gills are whitish grey, then pink, adnate to sinuate, not very crowded (nb of gills per 90° ~ 15 ). The spore print is pink. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, in open woodland, bushes, orchards, most of the time with elm, also with hornbeam.

The fruiting period takes place from April to July.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 5 cm (between 3 and 10 cm)
  height of stem approximately 6 cm (between 3 and 8 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 8 mm (between 5 and 10 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : grey-brown, hygrophanous cap, greasy to the touch when damp; brown fibrils along stem, with elm (sometimes hornbeam); in spring

Entoloma aprile is still unreported so far in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking .



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