Strobilurus esculentus (Wülfen:Fr.) Singer
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common name(s) : Sprucecone Cap, Edible Collybia
New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Physalacriaceae
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Tricholomatales/Dermolomataceae
synonyms: Collybia esculenta, Pseudohiatula esculenta, Collybia conigena ss.Rick.
edibility : discard
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The cap is ochre brown to reddish brown, convex then expanded, sometimes a bit umbonate; its margin is smooth, slightly striate when damp.
The cap surface is smooth, often a bit radially wrinkled.
The stem is concolorous to cap, paler towards the apex, deeply rooting, tough.
The flesh is white in the cap, brown in the stem, unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is faint, mushroomy;
its texture is fibrous.
The gills are grey then cream, shortly adnate, emarginate to free, rather crowded .
The spore print is white to creamy-white. This species is saprophytic.
It grows only on buried or half-buried cones of spruce, in groups, in coniferous woods, with spruce.
The fruiting period takes place from April to December.
Dimensions: | width of cap approximately 2 cm (between 0.5 and 3.5 cm) |
| height of stem approximately 4 cm (between 2 and 7 cm) |
| thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 2 mm (between 1 and 4 mm) |
Chemical tests : none.
Distinctive features : Brown cap; grey-white crowded gills; early in the season; exclusively on buried or half-buried spruce cones
Strobilurus esculentus is rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking
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| | Above : distribution map of Strobilurus esculentus in the forest of Rambouillet |
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page updated on 14/01/18