07/Sep/24, 12:56 PM
Kloostrimetsa, Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
Pine wood, near cemetery road in ground with pine needle litter
59°28'15.5"N 24°52'31.5"E
🔆 Bright noon sun, open spot
Original Instagram postChroogomphus rutilus
copper spike
- Scientific identification
- Chroogomphus rutilus (Schaeff.) O.K.Mill.
- Family
- Gomphidiaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Chroogomphus
Names across languages
- English: copper spike
- German: Kupferroter Gelbfuß
- Finnish: Rusakkonuljaska
- Estonian: Männiliimik
- Russian: Хроогомфус пурпуровый
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2024-09-07.
Hymenium
Gills widely spaced, and have a waxy texture. Initially, the gills are pale greyish, becoming darker with age and developing dark brown to blackish spots
Cap
convex when young, later flattening, and sometimes developing a central depression, surface is smooth, slimy when wet, and shiny when dry, with a coppery color, with purplish tinges
Hymenium Attachment
Decurrent
Stipe
cylindrical, often slightly tapering towards the base, and concolorous with the cap, solid at first but becomes hollow with age, with a sticky surface when moist
Spore print
Spore print blackish-brown
Ecology
Mycorrhizal with pines, found in sandy, acidic soils in pine forests, late summer to autumn
Edibility
Edible but not highly regarded due to its slimy texture and somewhat bland taste
Fruit body
Fruit Body: 6–12 cm tall, stipe 4–12 cm long, 1–2 cm thick
Dimensions
Cap: 4–12 cm wide
Odour
Odour not distinctive.
Microscopy
Spores smooth, elongated, fusiform, 17–22 x 6–7 µm, basidia tetrasporic, cystidia present on the gill edges, hyphal system monomitic
Overview
Easily recognizable by its shiny, coppery to reddish-brown cap
1964). Mycologia 56(4): 543.
Field encounters
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