In a container with strawberries. 10 July 2014 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Convex, expanding with age, breaking into coarse scales, cream, centre pale brown, to 10 cm across Gills Emarginate, crowded, whitish Stem Cylindrical or club shaped, white, decorated with dark brown scales Flesh Firm, white Smell Faint, of aniseed or almonds Taste Indistinct Season Spring to autumn Distribution Rare Habitat On compost heaps, wood chips and leaf mulch. Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal, with amyloid warts (7.5-9) x (4-5) µm2. Basidia four spored. Gill edge cystidia urticiform (narrow and tapering with sharp crystals at the apex). Edibility Suspect, avoid Notes This species was first recorded in Britain in 2000 in Middlesex. 
10 July 2014 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores viewed with a x100 immersion microscope objective and x2.5 projection eyepiece. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
A basidium with spores. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |