| location: North America | ||
| edibility: Poisonous/Suspect | ||
| fungus colour: White to cream, Grey to beige | ||
| normal size: Less than 5cm | ||
| cap type: Convex to shield shaped | ||
| stem type: Simple stem | ||
| flesh: Flesh fibrous usually pliable (like grass) | ||
| spore colour: White, cream or yellowish | ||
| habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on wood | ||
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Clitocybula familia (Pk.) Singer Cap 1-4cm across, bell-shaped then convex becoming flatter, with an incurved margin that spreads and finally becomes torn in age; grayish buff to brownish buff or dirty cream; smooth, moist. Gills adnate to nearly free, crowded, narrow; ash gray to whitish. Stem 40-80 x 1.5-3mm, fragile, gray or whitish, with flat white hairs on the base; smooth with a fine bloom. Flesh thin, fragile. Taste slightly disagreeable. Spores globose, smooth, amyloid, 3.5-4.5 x 3.5-4.5ยต. Deposit white. Habitat in large clusters on conifer logs. Often abundant. Found widely distributed in North America. Season August-October. Said to be edible. | ||
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