Image of Hygrophorus lucorum Kalchbr. 1874

Description:

Slo.: mecesnova polevka - Habitat: Dense mixed forest of young Picea abies, Abies alba, Larix decidua and Fagus Sylvatica, under a Larix decidua, flat terrain, calcareous bedrock, probably acid soil, in full shade (almost no ground vegetation), humid place, partly protected from direct rain by tree canopies, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 2-4 deg C, elevation 1.415 m (4.650 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: soil. - Comments: Growing scattered under a large Larix deciduas; about ten fruitbodies, pileus diameter up to 4 cm, fruitbodies up to 7.5 cm tall; taste and smell indistinctive; SP whitish-beige, oac899. - Spore dimensions: 9.9 (SD = 0.5) x 5.5 (SD = 0.3) micr., Q = 1.8 (SD = 0.13), n = 30. Olympus CH20 NEA 100x/1.25, magnification 1.000 x, in water, AmScope MA500. - Ref.: (1) Id'ed by Mr. Bojan Rot. (2) R.M. Daehncke, 1200 Pilze in Farbfotos, AT Verlag (2009), p 132. (3) G.J.Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Bade-Wrttembergs, Band 3, Ulmer (2001), p 102. (4) http://projet.aulnaies.free.fr/Florules/TRICHOLOMATALES.pdf (5) http://www.gobe.si/Gobe/HygrophorusLucorum