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Porcelain fungus

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A mushroom with two common names, it is also known as the Poached Egg fungus. Very common, edible after washing to remove gluten. I've tried these and they're not worth the effort.

 

This photo has been uploaded for enjoyment of the image not to aid in identification. Picking wild mushrooms to eat without expert knowledge will probably result in you dying.

 

location: Europe

edibility: Edible

fungus colour: White to cream

stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent, Ring on stem

flesh: Mushroom slimy or sticky

spore colour: White, cream or yellowish

habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on wood

 

Oudemansiella mucida (Schrad. ex Fr.) Kühn. syn. Armillaria mucida (Schrad. ex Fr.) Kummer Buchen-Schleimrühling, Collybie mucide Porcelain fungus, Poached Egg fungus. Cap 2–8cm across, convex then flattening, pale greyish when young becoming more white often with an ochraceous flush at the centre, semi-translucent, slimy. Stem 30–100×3–10mm, white striate above the membranous ring, slightly scaly below. Flesh thin, white. Cystidia thin-walled cylindric or utriform. Spore print white. Spores subglobose 13–18×12–15m. Cap cuticle hymeniform, of erect club-shaped cells. Habitat on the trunks of beech, often high up and in large clusters. Season late summer to late autumn.

 

info by Roger Phillips:

 

www.rogersmushrooms.com

 

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Uploaded on August 18, 2015
Taken on October 18, 2009