Laccaria proxima    (Boud.) Pat. 

common name(s) : Scurfy Deceiver, Close Deceiver 

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

synonyms: Laccaria laccata-proxima, Laccaria laccata-moelleri 

edibility : edible

photo gallery of  Laccaria proxima
photo gallery of  Laccaria proxima potential confusions with  Laccaria proxima toxicity of Laccaria proxima genus Laccaria  

The cap is reddish brown, convex then flattened to depressed. The cap surface is not viscid nor sticky.

The flesh is unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is not distinctive; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are flesh pink, adnate to decurrent, distant . The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal or saprophytic. It grows on the ground, on a rather acid and poor soil, with oak, birch, fir.

The fruiting period takes place from August to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 5 cm (between 1 and 10 cm)
  height of stem approximately 8 cm (between 2 and 15 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 6 mm (between 2 and 15 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : red-brown cap, scaly near the centre, with a non striate margin; slender and furrowed stem, same colour as cap; pink gills; white mycelium at base; in poor and humid soils

Laccaria proxima is quite rare and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Laccaria proxima in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Laccaria proxima in the forest of Rambouillet



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