Western snow mushroom Pluteus cervinus

Hat: finely fibrillose-silky edge, a little greasy to the touch and with small brown hairs in the center, dark brown to chocolate brown. Blades: free, white and then pink. Stalk: cream with brown fibrils at the base

Flesh: whitish

Spores: 6.5-9 x 4.5-6.5 µm, elliptical

Taste : sweet

Odour: strong, radish

WHERE TO FIND IT AT AROUCA GEOPARK

Fruiting season Autumn

Dimension Hat: 2.5-15 cm; Foot: 4-15 x 0.5-3 cm

Habitat Above all, under dead hardwoods, but also conifers

Pluteus cervinus

Pluteus cervinus

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