Wednesday, 15 February 2012

Laccaria proxima

Facts
Common Name: 
Laccaria proxima
Scientific Name: 
Laccaria proxima
Cap Diameter (mm): 
15-60mm
Stem Height (mm): 
50-100mm
Stem Diameter (mm): 
6-10mm
Information
Description: 

A smallish reddish brown agaric that is found growing solitary or in scattered groups in poor soil on heaths, bogs and moorland.

Distribution: 

Infrequent during Autumn.

Habitat: 

On poor acid soil on heathe, moorland and around bogs.

Cap: 

Convex, becoming flattened then depressed, smooth ot more or less scurfy. Reddish-brown when moist, ochraceous-buff when dry.

Flesh: 

Cap flesh pallid, tinged with the cap colour. Stem flesh concolorous, tough, fibrous, stuffed, becoming hollow. Odour, taste not distinctive.

Gills: 

Adnate, thick, broad, distant, pale pink.

Stem: 

Concolorous with the cap, may taper slightly towards the base, fibrilose, finely woolly at the base, becoming hollow, ring absent.