Hygrophorus marzuolus    (Fr.:Fr.) Bres. 

common name(s) : March Wax Cap 

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

synonyms: Camarophyllus marzuolus 

edibility : edible

potential confusions with  Hygrophorus marzuolus toxicity of Hygrophorus marzuolus genus Hygrophorus  

The cap is white then pearl grey to black. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is white they greyish, slightly scaly at the top, without ring.

The flesh is white to ash grey, unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is faint; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are white to ash grey, decurrent, distant . The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, on a rather calcareous soil, with fir, pine, spruce, cedar, beech.

The fruiting period takes place from January to June.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 9 cm (between 4 and 15 cm)
  height of stem approximately 7 cm (between 3 and 15 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 20 mm (between 10 and 35 mm)

Distinctive features : white cap, soon stained with grey and black, fleshy, with a wavy margin, sticky and hardly viscid when damp; thick decurrent gills, white then blackish; early in the year (winter-spring), mostly in the mountains

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



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