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Melanoleuca polioleuca
Cap 3–8cm, convex then flattened, often slightly depressed with a central boss, smooth, dark brown when moist drying buff. Stem 40–70 x 8–14mm, slightly bulbous, whitish covered in dark grey-brown longitudinal fibres. Flesh white in cap, flushed ochraceous to ochre-brown from stem base upwards. Taste and smell not distinctive. Gills crowded, sinuate, whitish to cream. Cheilocystidia thin-walled, hyaline, harpoon-shaped. Spore print cream. Spores elliptic, minutely ornamented, amyloid, 7–8.5 x 5–5.5um. Habitat woods and pastures. Season late summer to late autumn. Common. Said to be edible – not recommended. (Never eat any mushroom until you are certain it is edible as many are poisonous and some are deadly poisonous.)
Grows in woods, Grows on the ground, Found in fields, lawns or on roadsides. Distribution, America and Europe.
Spott4ed in a mix forest near my house
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