Clitopilus prunulus
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Subclass: | Hymenomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Entolomataceae |
| Genus: | Clitopilus |
| Species: | C. prunulus |
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Clitopilus prunulus (Scop. ex Fr.) P. Kumm. |
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| Synonyms | |
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Agaricus prunulus Scop., 1772 |
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| Mycological characteristics | |
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gills on hymenium |
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cap is convex |
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hymenium is decurrent |
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stipe is bare |
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spore print is pink |
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ecology is saprotrophic |
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edibility: choice |
Agaricus prunulus Scop., 1772
Agaricus orcella Bull., 1793
Clitopilus prunulus, commonly known as the miller or the sweetbread mushroom, is an edible pink-spored basidiomycete mushroom found in grasslands in Europe and North America. Growing Solitary to gregarious in open areas of conifer/hardwood forests; common under Bishop pine (Pinus muricata) along the coast north of San Francisco; fruiting shortly after the fall rains. It has a grey to white cap and decurrent gills.
Tyrolean naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli described the miller as Agaricus prunulus in 1772.Pierre Bulliard called it Agaricus orcella in 1793. German botanist Paul Kummer gave the miller its current name in 1871.
The cap is initially convex when young, but in maturity flattens out, usually with a shallow central depression. It is white or light gray or yellow, sticky when moist, and 3 to 10 cm (1.2 to 3.9 in) in diameter with a characteristic feel to the touch of chamois skin. The gills are decurrent in attachment to the stipe, spaced together rather closely, and whitish, although they often develop a pinkish hue in age. The stipe is 3 to 8 cm (1.2 to 3.1 in) long × 4–15 mm thick, and white. This mushroom has a mealy odor, somewhat like cucumber. The spore print is pink. Spores are 9–12 × 5–6.5 µm. Scopoli described it smelling like freshly ground flour. C. prunulus may be found growing on the ground in hardwood and coniferous woods in the summer and fall.
The variant C. prunulus var. orcellus has a slimy cap and white colors.
C. prunulus has been recorded from Varsey Rhododendron Sanctuary in Sikkim,
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