Hygrophorus leucophaeus    (Scop.) Gillet 

common name(s) : Twotone Woodwax 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Hygrophoraceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Tricholomatales [sub-genus:Neocamarophyllus section:Fulventes ]  

synonyms: Limacium leucophaeum ss.Rick., Hygrophorus unicolor 

edibility : edible

potential confusions with  Hygrophorus leucophaeus toxicity of Hygrophorus leucophaeus genus Hygrophorus  

The cap is brown pink, orange-brown, whitish. The cap surface is smooth, viscid or sticky.

The stem is whitish, without ring.

The flesh is white, unchanging; its taste is faint; the odour is not distinctive; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are white to pale salmon pink, decurrent, distant . The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, on a rather calcareous soil, with beech, oak, hornbeam.

The fruiting period takes place from September to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 3.5 cm (between 1.5 and 6 cm)
  height of stem approximately 5 cm (between 3 and 7 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 6 mm (between 4 and 8 mm)

Chemical tests : no reaction when in contact with potash.

Distinctive features : white cap, with a darker red-brown centre from the very youth, slimy; dry or slightly viscid stem, white and slightly washed with rust; with beech

Hygrophorus leucophaeus is still unreported so far in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking .



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