Hebeloma sinapizans    (Paulet) Sacc. 

common name(s) : Bitter Poisonpie, Peppery Hebeloma 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Strophariaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Cortinariales/Cortinariaceae/Hebelomae  

edibility : poisonous

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

The cap is cream to leather or rusty yellow. The cap surface is smooth, viscid in wet weather.

The stem is white turning brown, without ring.

The flesh is whitish, unchanging; its taste is bitter; the odour is of radish or raw potato; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are pale then cinnamon brown, emarginate, crowded . The spore print is brown. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in deciduous or mixed woods, on a rather calcareous soil, with beech, oak, hornbeam.

The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 10 cm (between 3 and 20 cm)
  height of stem approximately 11 cm (between 4 and 21 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 15 mm (between 10 and 30 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : hollow stem, containing a hanging piece of flesh from the cap; stem covered with banded scales; very bitter taste; gills without droplets; large size

Hebeloma sinapizans is infrequent and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Hebeloma sinapizans in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Hebeloma sinapizans in the forest of Rambouillet



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