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Welcome to Mushroom World, your resource for mushroom information. On this site you can search for mushrooms in our database and read about them. You can use this information to identify fungus, but do not eat mushrooms you are not 100% certain of. Use many resources, and be skeptical of your own conclusions. It takes normally years of experience to be able to identify mushrooms reliably. The responsibility for the identification is yours; the site takes no responsibility for damage caused by wrong identifications. Please read the disclaimer.
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Help identifying a mushroom
If you know how a mushroom looks, but need help to identify it, try our Mushroom identification helper. You can browse mushroom pictures there and perhaps find a match.
If this site cannot help you, we recommend mushroomobserver.org, which is a community site for mushroom identifications.
Today's Mushroom
Today's mushroom is Cystoderma amianthinum (Earthy Powdercap). The mushroom is Inedible. It grows in North America, Europe.
Description: Cystoderma amianthinum, also known as Earthy Powdercap or Saffron parasol, is a small to medium, fleshy agaric with ochre-yellow cap, white or cream gills has a coarsely granular stem with ring. It grows solitary or scattered in small tufted groups in damp mossy grassland, in coniferous forest clearings, or on wooded heaths.
Cap ochraceous or yellowish tan, convex to bell-shaped, and later flat with a slight depression around a low umbo (central boss). It is dry and powdery, often with a shaggy or fringed margin. Gills initially white, becoming creamy later. They are adnexed (narrowly attached to the stem), and initially quite crowded. Spore print is white.
Stem cylindrical, and has a flaky-granular sheath beneath a fleeting, powdery ring. Flesh dirty yellow, firm and stuffed.
Cystoderma amianthinum on the First Nature Web site.
Cystoderma amianthinum on the MushroomExpert.Com Web site.
Dimensions: Cap 2-5 cm diameter, stem 3-5 cm tall * 0.4-0.8 cm thick
If you are interested in this mushroom, look it up in our database. You can find more detailed pictures there.
