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Ringless honey mushroom

Desarmillaria tabescens

A species of Desarmillaria

The appearance of ringless honey mushroom can mimic other honey mushrooms. However, those other mushrooms have a ring, which is a circle of flesh around the mushroom's stem that this mushroom lacks. Ringless honey mushroom is a decomposer of wood with a particular preference for the deadwood from oak trees.

Cap Diameter:

2 - 7 cm

Odor:

Mildly mushroomy with a hint of cabbage.

General Info About Ringless honey mushroom

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Attributes of Ringless honey mushroom

Cap Diameter

2 - 7 cm

Height

2 - 10 cm

Cap

3 - 10 cm wide; yellow-brown; dry, with darker hairs or tufts of fibers; margin with veil remnants

Cap Shape

Convex, Flat, Central Bump

Cap Surfaces

Fibrillose-scaly, Visible lines or stripes

Gills

Subdecurrent; whitish, pinkish-brown

Gill Attachment

Decurrent

Stem

5 - 20 cm long, 4 - 16 mm wide; tapering to base; white above, brown base

Stem Shapes

Cylindrical

Stem Cross Sections

Hollow or cottony hollow

Flesh

Whitish to watery tan, unchanging when sliced

Ring

Ringless

Spore Print Color

White

Odor

Mildly mushroomy with a hint of cabbage.

Body Color

Brown

Yellow

Flesh Bruises

The flesh or milk does not discolor when bruised or cut.

Growth Form

Gregarious, Clustered

Nutrient Gathering

Parasitic

Substrate

On wood

You can find Ringless honey mushroom by these plants:

Silver maple, Sugar maple

Species Status

Widely throughout central and southern mainland Europe

Endangered Species

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Habitat of Ringless honey mushroom

Woods and wooded areas, rotting wood material, stumps or buried wood, base of living or dead trees

Scientific Classification of Ringless honey mushroom

Phylum

Club fungi

Class

Mushroom-forming fungi

Order

Gilled fungi

Family

Physalacriaceae

Genus

Desarmillaria

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