| Xerula radicata (Rehlan:Fr.) Dörfelt |
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common name(s) : Rooting Shank
synonyms: Mucidula radicata, Oudemansiella radicata, Collybia radicata, Collybia macroura
edibility : discard
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The cap is whitish to ochraceous, bell-shaped to convex then flattened, often with a broad and marked umbo; its margin is smooth, thin to striate. The cap surface is smooth, radially wrinkled, viscid when damp. The stem is whitish, greyish or brownish, very deeply rooting, without ring. The flesh is white, unchanging; its taste is mild or bitter; the odour is not distinctive; its texture is fibrous. The gills are white, adnate, distant (nb of gills per 90° ~ 17 ). The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic. It grows on wood, sometimes buried making it appear to grow on the ground, in broad-leaved woods, on stumps or buried roots of beech. The fruiting period takes place from May to November.
Chemical tests : none. Distinctive features : wrinkled, viscid, brown cap; long and narrow white stem, deeply buried in the ground; may look like growing on the ground but it colonises tree roots. Xerula radicata is occasional and widely present in the forest of Rambouillet, and is very frequent, more generally speaking . | ||
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