06/Oct/24, 1:24 PM
Soodla, Harjumaa, Estonia
Coniferous (spruce-pine-juniper) wood grassy space, on buried wood chips
59°23'11.8"N 25°22'40.6"E
🔆 Mild overcast, open spot
Original Instagram postStropharia aeruginosa
blue-green stropharia
- Scientific identification
- Stropharia aeruginosa (Curtis) Quél.
- Family
- Strophariaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Stropharia
Names across languages
- English: blue-green stropharia
- German: Grünspan-Träuschling
- Finnish: Viherkaulussieni
- Estonian: Sinivärvik
- Russian: Строфария сине-зелёная
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2024-10-06.
Hymenium
Gills, initially pale gray, becoming dark purple-brown with age, edged with white
Cap
Convex to bell-shaped when young, flattening with age, sticky, bright bluish-green to greenish with a slimy surface, often fading with age, adorned with white veil remnants on the margin
Hymenium Attachment
Adnate
Stipe
Cylindrical, pale bluish-green to whitish, covered in small white scales, with a fragile, membranous ring near the top
Spore print
Spore print dark purple-brown
Ecology
Saprobic, grows on decaying wood, wood chips, or in nutrient-rich soil, in grasslands and woodlands, late summer to autumn
Edibility
Inedible, effect of poisoning is little known and toxic constituents unknown
Fruit body
Fruit body medium-sized, stipe 5–10 cm long, 0.5–1.5 cm thick
Dimensions
Cap 4–8 cm in diameter
Odour
Odour earthy, faintly sweet
Microscopy
Elliptical, smooth, 7–10 x 4–5 µm, basidia 4-spored, cheilocystidia bottle-shaped
Overview
Medium-sized saprobic mushroom with a distinct slimy, greenish cap
1872). Mém. Soc. Émul. Montbéliard, Sér. 2 5: 141.
Field encounters
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