Wednesday, 15 February 2012

Felted Pinkgill

Facts
Common Name: 
Felted Pinkgill
Scientific Name: 
Entoloma griseocyaneum
Cap Diameter (mm): 
20-30mm
Stem Height (mm): 
60-80mm
Stem Diameter (mm): 
3-7mm
Information
Description: 

A small fungus  that has a scaly cap and pink gills and a bluish-grey stem found growing in groups amongst grass in parks and grassland.

Distribution: 

Infrequent from Summer till Autumn.

Habitat: 

Growing in grass in parks, fields and pastures.

Cap: 

Initially campanulate, becoming convex, pallid grey, fibrous, scaly and with a slight lilaceous tinge.

Flesh: 

Cap flesh is thin and greyish, stem flesh greyish, hollow and fibrous. Taste and odour not distinctive.

Gills: 

Adnate, fairly distant, pallid, pink at maturity.

Spores: 

Pink spore print.

Stem: 

Slender, silky, pallid blue-grey in colour, more or less equal, whitish fibrous at the base.

Additional Notes: 

Inedible.