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Laccaria laccata
The deceiver is a small mushroom with a cap up to 6 cm (2.4 in) in diameter, convex when young and later flattening or even depressed in the center. It can be various shades of salmon pink, brick-red, or shades of orange or brown when moist or young, and duller and paler when dry. The fibrous stipe is 5–10 cm (2–4 in) high and 0.6–1 cm wide. The irregular gills are widely spaced and decurrent or adnexed, and of similar color to the cap, though whiten with spores as the mushroom matures. The spore print is white, and the round spiny spores are 7–10 μm in diameter. The flesh is thin and has little taste.
Hardwood mulch
4 Comments
woops I meant lactarius paradoxus
check out Laccarius paradoxus.. very cool spp.
Thanks António. Laccarius spp. always amaze me. especially the ones that exude latex and have color reactions to air contact.
very cool,it's maybe the most common mushroom arround my area,but is beautiful and haved a great variety of collour and shapes a real "deciver" :-)