Laccaria bicolor

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Laccaria bicolor

This Laccaria has a finely fibrilose slightly depressed orange-brown cap. The cap margin lacks striations. The attached broad gills nearly distant and are initially lilac and become pinkish. The spores are white. The stem is concolorous with the cap and similarly bears longitudinally arranged red-brown fibrils. The base can be slightly bulbous. When first extracted from the ground, the basal mycelium is usually lavender, but this feature is often missed and turns white. Laccaria bicolor is mycorrhizal with conifers. It is edible.

Laccaria bicolor