Hebeloma crustuliniforme    (Bull.) Quél. 

common name(s) : Poisonpie, Poison Pie 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Strophariaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Cortinariales/Cortinariaceae/Hebelomae  
(unconfirmed synonyms: Hebeloma crustuliniformis)  

edibility : poisonous

photo gallery of  Hebeloma crustuliniforme
photo gallery of  Hebeloma crustuliniforme potential confusions with  Hebeloma crustuliniforme toxicity of Hebeloma crustuliniforme genus Hebeloma  

The cap is whitish with brown centre; its margin is exceeding, often wavy. The cap surface is smooth.

The stem is whitish, brown towards base, without ring.

The flesh is white, unchanging; its taste is bitter; the odour is radish-like; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are white then brown, adnate to emarginate, crowded . The spore print is brown. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved woodlands, forest edges, along paths, with birch, lime, poplar.

The fruiting period takes place from July to December.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 7 cm (between 3 and 15 cm)
  height of stem approximately 6 cm (between 3 and 10 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 14 mm (between 5 and 25 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : Gills weeping on their edge watery droplets, which become small brown spots when drying; stem with bulbous base, fragile, often remaining in the ground when collected; mealy or granular stem especially near top; strong smell of radish

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



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