Melanoleuca alboflavida Yellowish-white Melanoleuca
Family Tricholomataceae
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Potentially Edible
Whitish cap with white gills and slender, straight, white stalk with teisted lines of dark fibers.
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Description
Cap:5-10 cm (2-4") wide. Bell-
shaped, expanding to flat. Moist, smooth, yellow-brown becoming white.
Gills: Attached, crowded, narrow, whitish.
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Cap and Stalk
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Gills
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Stalk: : 3-15 cm (1 ¼-6") long and 0.5-1 cm (1/4-3/8") thick. Solid, brittle, fibrous-lined, whitish to buff.
Spore print: White.
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Habitat and Range
Individual to several, in deciduous woods. East of Great Plains.
Season
June- September.
Comments:
Very similar to poisonous Entoloma and can only be differentiated by spore print.
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Top of Cap
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