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Flammulina velutipes var. velutipes (Curtis) Singer, 1951 (Velvet Shank, Winter Fungus)

Date: 20 December 1998
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 20/12/1998[A]
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State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: on Sallow
Associated organism: on dead small trunk of Salix ?caprea
Identification Notes: Smell: candles (MWS) or stale wet cotton (CAS)
Spore print: white, non-amyloid.
Basidia: 4-spored.
Spores: 9-10/3.5-4µm, slightly capitate.

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magnified photograph Cap - older 14 Kb 344 by 330 pixels
magnified photograph Cap - older 28 Kb 364 by 484 pixels
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magnified photograph Fruitbodies - older 34 Kb 432 by 373 pixels
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magnified photograph Fruitbody - LS 500 by 240 pixels
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magnified photograph Fruitbody - older 23 Kb 335 by 382 pixels
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magnified photograph Stipe - close-up 10 Kb 133 by 374 pixels
microscope photograph Cheilocystidia 23 Kb 293 by 350 pixels
microscope photograph Cystidia 17 Kb 364 by 176 pixels
microscope photograph Fibres from stipe surface 17 Kb 299 by 229 pixels
microscope photograph Gill edge 7 Kb 318 by 148 pixels
microscope photograph Pleurocystidia 13 Kb 264 by 173 pixels
microscope photograph Scalp from cap 45 Kb 427 by 320 pixels
microscope photograph Spores 12 Kb 320 by 240 pixels
microscope photograph Spores 16 Kb 320 by 240 pixels
microscope photograph Stipe tomentum 7 Kb 276 by 122 pixels

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