Pluteus salicinus

taxobox
name = "Pluteus salicinus"
color = lightblue


image_width = 250px
regnum = Fungus
divisio = Basidiomycota
classis= Basidiomycetes
ordo = Agaricales
familia = Pluteaceae
genus = "Pluteus"
species = "P. salicinus"
binomial = "Pluteus salicinus"
binomial_authority = (Persoon ex Fries) Kummermycomorphbox
name = Pluteus salicinus
whichGills = free
capShape = convex
capShape2=flat
hymeniumType=gills
stipeCharacter=bare
ecologicalType=saprotrophic
sporePrintColor=pink
howEdible=psychoactive

"Pluteus salicinus" is a hallucinogenic mushroom which grows on wood and is widely distributed.

Description

*Cap: 2 to 5 cm (8) across, convex becoming broadly convex to plane, silver-grey to brownish-grey, often with blue or greenish tint in age, smooth, with tiny scales near the center, darker at the margin, slightly translucent-striate when moist, unlined cap margin, flesh white with a grayish tinge, thin to moderate. Cap skin fibrous.
*Gills: Crowded, broad, free, at first white, becoming pink-flesh colored; ventricose. Edges discoloring or bruising grayish.
*Stipe: 3 to 5 (10) long and .2 to .6 cm thick, more or less equal or slightly swollen at the base, flesh white with greyish-green to bluish-green tones, especially near the base. Ring absent. Firm, full or stuffed.
*Taste: Unpleasant, indefinite or somewhat raphanoid.
*Odor: Unpleasant, indefinite or somewhat raphanoid.
*Spores: pink, smooth, 7 - 8.5 µm x 5 - 6 µm. Spore print pink-flesh colored to brown-pink.
*Microscopic features: Pleurocystidia fusiform with slightly thickened walls 50-70 x 11-18 µm; with 3-5 horn-like projections.

Habitat and distribution

This mushroom is widely distributed across Europe and the United States. It is often found on alder and willow. It is always found growing on wood. Summer-fall, solitary or gregarious on dead wood of hardwoods, in damp forests on flood-plains.

External links

* [http://www.shroomery.org/9561/Pluteus-salicinus Pluteus salicinus photo and description]