🇺🇸 deer mushroom - 🇩🇪 Rehbrauner Dachpilz - 🇪🇪 Põdranapsik - 🇷🇺 Плютей олений 9/20/15—6/14/26
🆔 Pluteus cervinus (Schaeff.) P. Kumm.
ℹ️ Hymenium: Gills free, crowded, white at first, becoming pink to salmon-pink as spores mature
ℹ️ Cap: Bell-shaped to convex, later broadly convex or nearly flat; brown, darker in centre, smooth to silky, sometimes radially streaked or fibrillose
ℹ️ Hymenium Attachment: Free, not attached to the stipe
ℹ️ Stipe: Central, cylindrical, whitish to pale, with brown vertical fibrils; slightly enlarged at base; no ring
🔴🟠⚪ Spore print pale pink to salmon-pink
🪵🍂 Saprobic on decaying wood, stumps, fallen branches, buried wood, sawdust and wood chips, on hardwood, spring to autumn
😕 Edible but mediocre, not highly prized
📏 Fruit body medium to large, stipe ~5–12 cm long, ~0.5–2 cm thick
📐 Cap ∅ ~4–12 cm
🔪 White, soft, unchanging when cut
🧪 Flesh without KOH reaction, spores hyaline to faintly ochraceous in KOH
👃 Indistinct, faintly earthy or radish-like
👅 Mild, slightly bitter
🔬 Spores ellipsoid, smooth, inamyloid, ~6–8 × 4.5–6 µm, cheilocystidia abundant, pleurocystidia thick-walled, fusiform to utriform, with 2–5 apical hooks, clamp connections absent
🔤 Wood-decaying pink-spored agaric with free gills, brown deer-coloured cap and fibrillose pale stipe
🇺🇸 deer mushroom - 🇩🇪 Rehbrauner Dachpilz - 🇪🇪 Põdranapsik - 🇷🇺 Плютей олений