Xerula megalospora

Xerula megalospora grow on the grass near wood stumps. They can grow up to 6 cm high and there caps can grow 2-10 cm across. The caps can be a convex or umbonate shape eventually becoming flat and centrally depressed, the cap is also sticky to touch. It is colored smokey white to a pale buff. Gills are attached white, smooth, and silky to fine straite, with root-like extentions up to 8 cm long. The spore print is white. It is widespread and fairly common in urban areas.

mycomorphbox
name = Xerula megalospora
whichGills = Adnexed
capShape =convex
capShape2 =umbonate
hymeniumType=gills
stipeCharacter = bare
ecologicalType = saprotrophic
sporePrintColor=white
howEdible=unknown

Bibliography

[details of the citation] George Barron. Mushrooms of Ontario and Eastern Canada(1999). Lone Pine Publishing, Edmonton. ISBN 1-55105-199-0