Clitocybe odora    (Bull.:Fr.) P. Kumm. 

common name(s) : Aniseed Funnel, Blue-green Clitocybe, Aniseed Mushroom, Blue-green Funnel Cap, Aniseed Toadstool 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Tricholomataceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Tricholomatales/Tricholomataceae/Tricholomatoideae/Clitocybeae  

synonyms: Clitocybe viridis 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Lepista odora)  

edibility : edible

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photo gallery of  Clitocybe odora potential confusions with  Clitocybe odora toxicity of Clitocybe odora genus Clitocybe  

The cap is blue, green, grey, with a central umbo. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is blue green, without ring.

The flesh is unchanging; the odour is strong, of aniseed; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are decurrent to adnate, crowded (nb of gills per 90° ~ 20 ). The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic or mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved (sometimes coniferous) woods, with beech, chestnut, birch, pine.

The fruiting period takes place from July to December.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 6 cm (between 3 and 10 cm)
  height of stem approximately 5 cm (between 2 and 10 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 7 mm (between 3 and 12 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : silky blue-green cap (viscous if damp), soon depressed; strong odour of aniseed

Clitocybe odora is occasional and widely present in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Clitocybe odora in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Clitocybe odora in the forest of Rambouillet



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