Hebeloma mesophaeum

Hebeloma mesophaeum (Pers.:Fr.) Quél.

common name(s) : Veiled Poisonpie, Two-tone Hebeloma

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Strophariaceae
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Cortinariales/Cortinariaceae/Hebelomae

synonyms: Hebeloma strophosum
(unconfirmed synonyms: Hebeloma flammuloides, Hebeloma pyrophilum, Hebeloma subtortum, Hebeloma mesophaeum-esophaeum)

edibility : discard

The cap is yellow-brownish with darker centre. The cap surface is smooth, viscid in wet weather.

The stem is white to reddish, with a ring zone formed from cortina remnants, with a cortina clearly visible on young specimens.

The flesh is white in the cap, brown in the stem, unchanging; the odour is radish-like; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are white then brown, emarginate, crowded . The spore print is brown. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, on a rather variable soil, with birch, spruce, pine, stone pine, willow, oak, beech, fir, Norway spruce.

The fruiting period takes place from July to December.

Dimensions:	width of cap approximately 4 cm (between 1 and 8 cm)
	height of stem approximately 6 cm (between 2 and 10 cm)
	thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 6 mm (between 3 and 11 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : cortina quite visible on young specimens; two-coloured cap, brown at the centre and paler towards the margin, greasy to viscous when damp; stem with brownish base; bitter flesh

Hebeloma mesophaeum is quite rare and widely present in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking .

here should be the distribution map of Hebeloma mesophaeum in the forest of Rambouillet

Above : distribution map of Hebeloma mesophaeum in the forest of Rambouillet

page updated on 14/01/18