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Welcome to Mushroom World, your resource for mushroom information. On this site you can search for mushrooms in our database and read about them. You can use this information to identify fungus, but do not eat mushrooms you are not 100% certain of. Use many resources, and be skeptical of your own conclusions. It takes normally years of experience to be able to identify mushrooms reliably. The responsibility for the identification is yours; the site takes no responsibility for damage caused by wrong identifications. Please read the disclaimer.
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Help identifying a mushroom
If you know how a mushroom looks, but need help to identify it, try our Mushroom identification helper. You can browse mushroom pictures there and perhaps find a match.
If this site cannot help you, we recommend mushroomobserver.org, which is a community site for mushroom identifications.
Today's Mushroom
Todays mushroom is Cortinarius mucosus (Orange Webcap). The mushroom is Inedible. It grows in Europe.
Description: This medium to large agaric is very slimy with a yellowish brown cap, cinnamon or rust colored gills, a stout white stem with ring zone and slightly swollen base. It grows typically with pine or birch.
Cap coloured dark reddish to to orange brown, convex or wavy margined, smooth, very sticky. Gills gray to cinnamon brown, sinuate, adnate. Spores are rusty brown. Stem is white with rust sub-apical cortinal zone. It is smooth or faintly scaly below cap, more or less equal or slightly swollen at base, and very sticky. The mushroom has no ring.
Similar species Cortinarius collinitus occurs with spruce. It has a blue -tinged slime on its stem. Other similar species grow under different host trees.
Cortinarius mucosus on the MushroomExpert.Com Web site.
Dimensions: Cap 6-10 cm diameter, stem 6-10 cm tall * 1-2.5 cm thick
If you are interested in this mushroom, look it up in our database. You can find more detailed pictures there.
