Image of Hypholoma fasciculare (Huds.) P. Kumm. 1871

Description:

Slo.: navadna veplenjaa - Habitat: Mixed wood, dominant Picea abies and Fagus sylvatica, flat terrain, cretaceous clastic rock (flysh) bedrock, in almost total shade, partly protected from direct rain by tree canopies, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 410 m (1.350 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: forgotten totally rotten heap of fire wood. - Comments: Growing in clusters, pileus diameter 2.5 to 5 cm, taste unpleasant quite strong, smell indistinctive mushroomy, SP abundant chocolate-brown with violet tint oac636, cup yellow-ochre oac812, darker at the center oac849, gills with green tint. - Spore smooth. Dimensions 6.5 (SD = 0.3) x 4.1 (SD = 0.2) micr., Q = 1.58 (SD = 0.07), n = 30. Motic B2-211A, magnification 1.000 x, oil, in water. - Ref.: (1) G.J.Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Bade-Wrttembergs, Band 4, Ulmer (2003), p 356. (2) R.Phillips, Mushrooms, Macmillan (2006), p 231. (3) M.Bon, Parey's Buch der Pilze, Kosmos (2005), p 252. (4) A.Poler, Veselo po gobe (in Slovene), Mohorjeva druba Celovec (2002), p 227.