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Agaricus silvaticus Schaeff., 1762 (Blushing Wood Mushroom)

Date: 28 October 1998
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 28/10/1998[E]
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State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: under Hawthorn
Associated organism: under Crataegus monogyna
Identification Notes: Flesh strongly reddening.
Stipe: floccose below.
Ring: double; with small scales or cog wheel at margin; brownish on underside.
Spores: 5-6/3.5-3.7µm
Basidia: 4-spored.
Spore print: cigar brown.
Cheilocystidia: abundant, clavate (6.5-11.5µm diam), occasionally cylindric to lageniform.

Images etc

magnified photograph Cap - LS 24 Kb 452 by 314 pixels
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magnified photograph Cap margin - close-up 49 Kb 404 by 399 pixels
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magnified photograph Cap with ring just bursting 500 by 366 pixels
magnified photograph Cap 18 Kb 262 by 365 pixels
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magnified photograph Fruitbodies 27 Kb 483 by 327 pixels
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magnified photograph Fruitbody - LS 22 Kb 472 by 299 pixels
magnified photograph Gills 500 by 308 pixels
magnified photograph Ring - close-up 28 Kb 388 by 365 pixels
magnified photograph Underside of bursting ring 35 Kb 441 by 373 pixels
microscope photograph Basidium 3 Kb 103 by 112 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidia in gill edge 4 Kb 99 by 117 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidia in gill edge 14 Kb 257 by 160 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidia in gill edge 11 Kb 246 by 120 pixels
microscope photograph Spores 19 Kb 320 by 240 pixels
microscope photograph Spores 8 Kb 191 by 132 pixels

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