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common name(s) : Pink Domecap
synonyms: Lyophyllum carneum, Calocybe carnea, Tricholoma carneum edibility : discard
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The cap is rose to flesh-pink, getting paler with age especially at the centre, convex then flattened, sometimes slightly depressed in the centre, without any umbo, or broadly umbonate; its margin is smooth, inrolled in the youth. The cap surface is smooth, pruinose towards the margin, dry, not viscid nor sticky. The stem is concolorous with cap or paler, flesh-pink, whitish at the very top, pruinose at the top, sometimes irregular and compressed, without ring. The flesh is white, unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is not distinctive or of mowed lawn (creased); its texture is fibrous. The gills are white to cream, adnate to emarginate, crowded . The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, in the grass of parks, gardens, paths, meadows, woodlands. The fruiting period takes place from June to November.
Chemical tests : none. Distinctive features : flesh-pink coloured cap; stem concolorous to cap, but white at the very top; pure white crowded gills, usually not in woods, but found in parks, meadows, paths, gardens Rugosomyces carneus is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking . | ||
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