Oudemansiella mucida    (Schrad.:Fr.) Höhn. 

common name(s) : Porcelain Fungus, Porcelain Mushroom, Poached Egg Fungus, Porcelain Agaric 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Physalacriaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Tricholomatales/Dermolomataceae  

synonyms: Mucidula mucida, Armillaria mucida, Collybia mucida 

edibility : discard

photo gallery of  Oudemansiella mucida
photo gallery of  Oudemansiella mucida potential confusions with  Oudemansiella mucida toxicity of Oudemansiella mucida genus Oudemansiella  

The cap is white, convex then a bit expanded. The cap surface is smooth, viscid or sticky.

The stem is whitish, with a white ring.

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

The gills are white, distant . The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic, rarely parasitic of weakness. It grows on wood, most of the time dead, in broad-leaved woods, on dead or weakened beech, often high in the tree.

The fruiting period takes place from July to March.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 7 cm (between 1.5 and 15 cm)
  height of stem approximately 6 cm (between 3 and 14 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 7 mm (between 2 and 12 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : White to translucent cap, very slimy; ring on stem; distant gills; thin and soft flesh; on beech

Oudemansiella mucida is quite rare and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Oudemansiella mucida in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Oudemansiella mucida in the forest of Rambouillet



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