Infundibulicybe geotropa    (Bull.) Harmaja 

common name(s) : Trooping Funnel, Monk's Head 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Tricholomataceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Tricholomatales/Tricholomataceae/Tricholomatoideae/Clitocybeae  

synonyms: Clitocybe geotropa 

edibility : edible, good

photo gallery of Infundibulicybe geotropa
photo gallery of Infundibulicybe geotropa potential confusions with Infundibulicybe geotropa toxicity of Infundibulicybe geotropa genus Infundibulicybe  

The cap is brown then whitish with age, with a central umbo. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is brown then white, bulbous, without ring.

The flesh is unchanging; the odour is pleasant, sweet, or of bitter almonds; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are white to yellowish, decurrent, crowded . The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved or mixed woods, clearings, forest edges, on a rather calcareous soil.

The fruiting period takes place from July to December.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 15 cm (between 4 and 30 cm)
  height of stem approximately 12 cm (between 5 and 25 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 25 mm (between 10 and 40 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : thick stem, with a white dew at its base; cap with a prominent umbo; margin inrolled for a long time; sweet odour; diameter of cap equivalent to stem length

Infundibulicybe geotropa is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Infundibulicybe geotropa in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Infundibulicybe geotropa in the forest of Rambouillet



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