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Clitocybe nebularis

 

Clitocybe nebularis, commonly called the Clouded Funnel Cap, is often found growing in rings in pine forests. This large mushroom also grows in deciduous woods and beneath hedgerows.

Once considered edible, this mushroom is now suspect and is probably best avoided when gathering fungi to eat.

  Also recorded as Lepista nebularis (Batsch : Fr.) Harmaja, this large mushroom is commonly referred to as the Clouded Agaric or the Clouded Funnel Cap.

It is common to see large rings of Clitocybe nebularis in coniferous woods - a trait this species shares with its close relative Lepista nuda, the Wood Blewit. 

Cap

Convex or conical at first, the caps of this large mushroom take up to a month to expand fully. Eventually they flatten out and often become slightly funnel-shaped with a wavy margin.

When fully expanded the caps range from 6 to 20 cm in diameter and are grey, often with a cloud-like pattern in the central region. The surface is often covered with a pale felt-like bloom.

Gills

White becoming pale cream with age, the crowded gills are adnate or slightly decurrent to the stem.

Stipe

2 to 3 cm in diameter and with a swollen base, the solid stem is 6 to 12 cm tall, smooth and paler than the cap.

Spore print

Pale buff.

Odour/taste

Sweet fruity smell (although some people detect an odour of turnip); no distinctive taste.

Habitat

In broad-leaf and coniferous woodland and beneath hedgerows.

Season

August to early December.

Occurrence

Very common.

Similar species

  1. Lepista nuda, the Wood Blewit, is similar but has pale lilac sinuate gills.

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