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Today's Mushroom
Todays mushroom is Calocybe persicolor (Pink Lawn Trich). The mushroom is Inedible. It grows in North America, Europe.
Description: A small, fleshy agaric with flesh-pink cap and white gills. It often grows on soil in grass in parks and mixed woods; it is less frequent in open grasslands.
Cap is dirty pink; at first convex, it expands with a somewhat irregular margin. Towards the margin, cap is smooth and covered with whitish dust or bloom. Flesh is white with pink tinge beneath cuticle. Gills are white, narrow and crowded.
Stem is pallid similarly colored as the cap. Its finely fibrillose surface hairy at the base, tapers slightly upwards.
Similar species Calocybe carnea is less dull without the hairy stem base.
Dimensions: Cap 3-5 cm diameter, stem 3-5 cm tall * 0.3-0.8 cm diameter
If you are interested in this mushroom, look it up in our database. You can find more detailed pictures there.
Forums
General mushroom hunting discussions. You can write here about anything having to do with mushrooms.
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Discussion about mushrooms in Europe. You can also post your ID questions here, but remember, it is very difficult to be 100% certain of the ID of a mushroom from just descriptions and photos online.
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9/18/2016
Discussion about mushrooms in Scandinavia. Beside English, you can also write in this forum in for example Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish. If you post your ID questions here, but don't eat any mushroom you are not 100% certain of it's ID.
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9/7/2015
Discussion about mushrooms in North America. You can also post your ID questions here, but remember, it is very difficult to be 100% certain of the ID of a mushroom from just descriptions and photos online.
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9/21/2016
Discussion about mushrooms in South America. You can also post your ID questions here, but remember, it is very difficult to be 100% certain of the ID of a mushroom from just descriptions and photos online.
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5/26/2014
Discussion about mushrooms in Australia and New Zealand. You can also post your ID questions here, but remember, it is very difficult to be 100% certain of the ID of a mushroom from just descriptions and photos online.
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6/24/2016
Discussion about mushrooms in Asia. You can also post your ID questions here, but remember, it is very difficult to be 100% certain of the ID of a mushroom from just descriptions and photos online.
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4/8/2016