BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Leucoagaricus georginae (W.G. Sm.) Candusso, 1990 (a dapperling)
| Date: | 3 October 1999 |
| Location: | East Gloucestershire, England |
| Voucher: | 03/10/1999[C] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
| State: | Fruitbody |
| Record Summary: | under Chamaecyparis pisifera "Squarrosa" |
| Associated organism: | under Chamaecyparis pisifera "Squarrosa" |
| Identification Notes: | Very fragile toadstools. Rather pale but was amongst overhanging brushwood. Cap surface velvety, white with a grey eye (like L. felina) when found but rapidly and strongly bruising orangey-red, then turning black over several minutes. Green with NH4OH. Spores: ellipsoid, but pointed at both ends, 6.5-8/4-4.5µm. Spores not metachromatic except at apiculus. Basidia: 4-spored. |
Images etc
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Cap - close-up | 500 by 378 pixels | ||
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Cap | 49 Kb | 456 by 386 pixels | |
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Cap | 500 by 428 pixels | ||
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Fruitbody | 18 Kb | 298 by 398 pixels | |
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Gills - close-up | 34 Kb | 454 by 308 pixels | |
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Cap cuticle - a few unshrivelled cells | 500 by 401 pixels | ||
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Cap cuticle - where rubbed and turned black | 500 by 401 pixels | ||
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Cheilocystidia in gill edge | 43 Kb | 483 by 349 pixels | |
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Cheilocystidia in gill edge | 500 by 379 pixels | ||
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Cheilocystidia | 34 Kb | 463 by 348 pixels | |
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Cheilocystidia | 500 by 393 pixels | ||
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Cheilocystidium | 9 Kb | 138 by 303 pixels | |
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Cheilocystidium | 10 Kb | 120 by 310 pixels | |
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Spores | 13 Kb | 237 by 197 pixels | |
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Spores | 19 Kb | 324 by 253 pixels | |
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Spores | 26 Kb | 427 by 341 pixels | |
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Spores | 8 Kb | 214 by 246 pixels | |
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Spores | 17 Kb | 427 by 341 pixels | |
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Spores | 11 Kb | 264 by 220 pixels |
