Entoloma euchroum    (Pers.:Fr.) Donk 

common name(s) : Stump Pinkgill 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Entolomataceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Pluteales/Entolomataceae  

synonyms: Leptonia euchroa 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Rhodophyllus euchrous)  

edibility : unknown edibility

photo gallery of  Entoloma euchroum
photo gallery of  Entoloma euchroum potential confusions with  Entoloma euchroum toxicity of Entoloma euchroum genus Entoloma  

The cap is pale blue-violet to silver grey, convex-hemispherical or campanulate, sometimes expanded; its margin is non striate. The cap surface is silky, fibrillose to scaly.

The stem is pale blue-violet to silver grey, very fibrillose, without ring.

The flesh is white to pale blue-greyish, unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is spicy (like a wood blewit), fruity or of violet; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are blue to purple, with darker edge, then pink, adnate or emarginate, not very crowded (nb of gills per 90° ~ 15 ). The spore print is pink. This species is saprophytic. It grows on dead wood, in damp places, on dead deciduous wood, on alder most of the time, but also on elm, birch, hazelnut, beech.

The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 2.5 cm (between 0.5 and 5 cm)
  height of stem approximately 5 cm (between 2 and 7 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 4 mm (between 2 and 6 mm)

Distinctive features : entirely blue; silky-fibrillose cap; stem base with silver-grey down (mycelium); edge of gills more coloured; on branches or stumps (alder)

Entoloma euchroum is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Entoloma euchroum in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Entoloma euchroum in the forest of Rambouillet



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