08/Nov/24, 3:27 PM
Lubja, Harjumaa, Estonia
Mixed forest, on ground with decaying foliage
59°31'28.3"N 24°49'56.2"E
🔆 Mild overcast, deep forest shade
Original Instagram postClitocybe nebularis
cloud funnel
- Scientific identification
- Clitocybe nebularis (Batsch) P.Kumm.
- Family
- Clitocybaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Clitocybe
Names across languages
- English: cloud funnel
- German: Nebelgrauer Trichterling
- Finnish: Härmämalikka
- Estonian: Udulehtrik
- Russian: Говорушка дымчатая
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2024-11-08.
Hymenium
Gills, crowded, pale cream to light grayish-buff
Cap
Convex when young, becoming broadly convex to flat with a slight depression in the center, surface smooth, moist to greasy, grayish-brown to smoky-gray, with a frosted or nebulous appearance
Hymenium Attachment
Adnate to slightly decurrent
Stipe
Stout, cylindrical, slightly bulbous at the base, smooth or slightly fibrillose, whitish to pale gray, with a mealy coating near the apex
Spore print
Spore print whitish in a thin print, but pale yellowish in thick prints
Ecology
Saprobic, growing in leaf litter in deciduous and coniferous woodlands, often in dense clusters, late summer to late autumn
Edibility
Edible when cooked, but causes digestive upset in some individuals
Fruit body
Fruit body large, stipe 5–12 cm long, 1–3 cm thick
Dimensions
Cap 7–20 cm in diameter
Chemical reactions
KOH negative on cap surface.
Odour
Odour strongly farinaceous or sweetish
Taste
Taste mild to slightly farinaceous
Microscopy
Spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, inamyloid, 5–7 × 3.5–4.5 µm, basidia 4-spored, 30–40 × 5–7 µm
Overview
Smoky-gray mushroom with a smooth, frosted cap and crowded pale gills
1871). Führ. Pilzk. (Zerbst): 124.
Field encounters
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