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Megacollybia platyphylla
The cap is 6 to 14 cm across, convex, not flattening completely but often developing a slight central depression with a small umbo. Smooth and dry, various shades of grey-brown with radial streaks. In dry weather the caps of this mushroom sometimes split radially at the margins. The gills are sinuate or adnexed to stem, white, turning cream with age. They are crowded and very broad, platyphylla means literally broad leaves. On older species the gills become irregularly wavy. The stem is 5 to 15 cm long and 0.6 to 1 cm in diameter. The base often rooting and with long white rhizomorphs attached. It is white, covered in grey-brown fibrils, paler at the apex and no ring.
This woodland mushroom occurs throughout most Europe and is also recorded in parts of Russia. Megacollybia platyphylla is a saprobic mushroom. It can occur either solitarily or in small groups on and near deciduous hardwood trunks, branches or woody debris, or arising from the forest floor from buried wood.
Spotted in National Park De Hoge Veluwe, Holland.
Spotted on Sep 8, 2014
Submitted on Sep 8, 2014
2 Comments
Thank you so much, Michel. Great facebookpages and I see you already added me :) Again thank you for taking the time to help me with identifying some of my spotted fungi.
Try Megacollybia platyphylla! I've noticed you've uploaded a nice set of Fungi from the Netherlands. Even added names, including the scientific name and some great descriptions. I was very active here on PN providing identifications, correcting some names and offering extra background information on the species and Fungi in general. Now I am co-admin and moderator of three facebookpages:
Paddenstoelen (a Flemmish-Dutch collaboration between the mycology grad Dieter Slos and me),
Paddenstoelen Groep Nederland, Dutch Mushroom Group (an all Dutch group, founded by enthousiast Ramon Rijntjes, later he added me as admin) and
Determinatie van Planten en Dieren (an all collaboration page, moderated by enthousiastic experts in all kinds of fields, from all the groups of animals to fungi. A friend of mine, who is a (Micro)lepidoptera expert, added me as a moderator about two weeks ago).
Maybe you can take a look if you want your spottings to be identified quickly and with great care by very kind experts. I hope you'll to see you there!
Cheers! Michel