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Coprinopsis pseudonivea (an inkcap)

Date: 24 November 2001
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 24/11/2001[A]
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State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: on Cow dung
Associated organism: on dung of Bos
Identification Notes: Smell: same as the dung, like aerosol pyrethroid insecticide (like Tricholoma pseudoalbum) but more earthy.
Cap with smooth-walled spherocysts
Spores: 12-13(16)/7-8(9)µm, somewhat angular and quite variable in size.

Images etc

naked eye photograph Cap - enlarged 500 by 363 pixels
naked eye photograph Fruitbody - lateral view 175 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph In situ 448 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph In situ 250 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Spores 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Spores 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Spores 500 by 433 pixels

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