| Scutiger cristatus (Schaeff.) Bondartsev & Singer |
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New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Incertae sedis/Russulales/Albatrellaceae Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Aphyllophoromycetideae/Polyporales/Bjerkanderaceae synonyms: Laeticutis cristata, Polyporus cristatus, Albatrellus cristatus edibility : inedible
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The cap is olive yellow-brown to greenish, round, irregular, funnel- or tongue-shaped, often fused with neighbouring caps. The cap surface is smooth, velvety-felty, cracked then scaly with age. The cap margin is smooth, thin, inrolled, lobed and wavy. The stem is white, olive-yellow at its base, felty, eccentric and short. The flesh is white, thick, fragile; its taste is mild but unpleasant; the odour is unpleasant; The tubes are white then olive-yellow, decurrent, not easily separated from cap and short (1 to 3mm). The pores are white, small and almost round (3 per mm), becoming olive-yellow with age. The spore print is white. It grows in deciduous or coniferous forests, in the mountains, with beech, spruce. The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Chemical tests : flesh reddens when in contact with potash; turns brown then blackish-blue when in contact with sulphuric acid. Distinctive features : olive-brown caps, olive-green at the margin, often fused, with a cracked surface and wavy margin; short stem; white pores; unpleasant odour; in the mountains Scutiger cristatus is still unreported so far in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking .
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