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Destructive pholiote

Hemipholiota populnea

Description:

Fleshy large and cream-beige-colored agaric, some 15cm tall, and some 12 cm in diameter. Cap is convex, and both stem and cap are well covered with whitish scales. White gills, relatively dense. Young carpophores are visible in all photos, at the base of bigger ones.

Habitat:

Mixed lowland forest in a protected marshy area of Etournel; rural parts of Geneva suburbs in lake Geneva valley; these marshes are very close to banks of river Rhône.

Notes:

At a first glance, I thought this was a member of Lepiota gender... Later on, and because it grows directly from the trees (both decaying logs - Pics N° 1 to 4; and from live broad-leaved trees -pics N° 5 and 6), I identified it as Train wrecker or (Neolentinus lepideus, a.k.a. Lentinus lepideus)...

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Zlatan Celebic
Zlatan Celebic 5 years ago

Just found the ID, by chance. There seem to be no english vernacular name, so I simply translated the french name "Pholiote destructrice".

Zlatan Celebic
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Zlatan Celebic

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Tromelin Island

Spotted on Sep 21, 2018
Submitted on Sep 23, 2018

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