Entoloma rhodopolium fo. nidorosum

Entoloma rhodopolium fo. nidorosum (Fr.) Noordel.

common name(s) : Stinking Entoloma

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Entolomataceae
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Pluteales/Entolomataceae

synonyms: Entoloma nidorosum, Rhodophyllus nidorosus

edibility : poisonous

photo gallery of Entoloma rhodopolium fo. nidorosum

The cap is whitish cream to brown. The cap surface is smooth, viscid in wet weather.

The stem is whitish to greyish, without ring.

The flesh is watery white, unchanging; its taste is unpleasant, slightly mealy; the odour is of bleach, or chlorine, or nitrous, or burnt flesh; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are white then pink, distant . The spore print is pink. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, with beech, aspen, hazel, hornbeam, alder.

The fruiting period takes place from July to December.

Dimensions:	width of cap approximately 5 cm (between 1.5 and 12 cm)
	height of stem approximately 9 cm (between 3.5 and 15 cm)
	thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 8 mm (between 3 and 15 mm)

Distinctive features : hygrophanous cap, strong nitrous odour (or of bleach)

Entoloma rhodopolium fo. nidorosum is infrequent and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking .

here should be the distribution map of Entoloma rhodopolium fo. nidorosum in the forest of Rambouillet

Above : distribution map of Entoloma rhodopolium fo. nidorosum in the forest of Rambouillet

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