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mycena pseudocorticola
----Species =Mycena pseudocorticola ----Cap =Conical, expanding with age, greyish to brownish, radially lined, to about 1 cm across ----Gills =Adnate, broad, pale grey ----Stem =Slender, equal, concolorous with the cap ----Flesh =Fragile, pale, ----Smell =Indistinct ----Taste =Indistinct ----Spore Print =Pale cream -----Microscopic Features =Spores sub-spherical, smooth (8-12) µm. Basidia 2 or 4 spored. Gill edge cystidia club shaped with short spines. ----Edibility =Inedible ----Notes =There are a number of similar corticolous - i.e. living on bark - species which could be confused
----Season =Autumn to winter ----Distribution =Rare ----Habitat =In moss on the bark of deciduous trees
Blauwgrijze schorsmycena (dutch) - (blue grey bark-mycena/bonnet)
Spotted on Oct 14, 2011
Submitted on Feb 4, 2012
9 Comments
clive, isn't that color intresting/odd. becaus of the spotting above i searched in my picture for the other one, when i found him, i thought of : mycena interupta. almost posted i read "southern hemisphere", then i looked again at the m. pseudocorticola, some matched, therefore i id them as such. But isn't that color odd ?! ----> ( http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/884... )
btw thanks
no i hadn't,it was secundar for me but after your comment i took a look: wirror moss is a common furry moss here. I could search further for an real id, but not that intressting for me.
By the way, did you identify the moss that is covering the grond? :)
nice mycena Alex
these are actually not really purple, they are blue grey. the netherlands name is translated as "blue grey bark-mycena/bonnet"
Thanks. I just did. They are so purple that these look pale in comparison to them!
thanks, when you like purple mushrooms take a look at laccaria amethistina.
Wow! Purple mushrooms! I have never seen such thing. They are incredible.