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common name(s) : Aniseed Cockleshell, Spiral Lentinus
synonyms: Lentinus cochleatus edibility : edible
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The cap is tawny-brown, flesh-brown to reddish brown or ochraceous, convex at first, then rapidly irregularly funnel-shaped, twisted and split on one side; its margin is thin, incurved to inrolled. The cap surface is smooth to slightly wrinkled, somewhat darker in some places, shiny to matt. The stem is central, off-centre or lateral, deeply rooting, concolorous to the cap but becoming dark towards its base with age, sometimes welded with neighbouring stems and furrowed following the gills. The flesh is slightly tough (more so with âge), white to creamy pink; its taste is faint and mld, of aniseed; the odour is strong, of aniseed; its texture is fibrous. The gills are pale, whitish, then flesh-brown, then eventually brown with reddish shades, very decurrent, more or less crowded, irregular, narrow, with a toothed edge . The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic. It grows on dead wood, typically tufted, in deciduous woods, more rarely in coniferous woods, on stumps or dead branches, preferably on beech but also on other deciduous, also occasionally on pine, spruce. The fruiting period takes place from July to December.
Chemical tests : none. Distinctive features : reddish-brown cap, irregularly funnel-shaped, twisted and split on one side; stem concolorous with cap, more or less off-centre or lateral; flesh a bit tough, with a strong odour of aniseed; pallid gills, strongly decurrent, with a toothed edge; in tufts, on dead deciduous wood or stumps, sometimes on conifers Lentinellus cochleatus is quite rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking . | ||
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