Today, I want to show you a photoreport of Entoloma sinuatum (Bull.) P. Kumm., a fungi species commonly known as livid entoloma or livid pinkgill.
It's a saprotrophic species that occurs in the European continent and some parts of North America.
Quick identification:
- The cap is approximately 7 to 20 cm in diameter; it's robust and convex in the early stages of development, then flattened with a pronounced umbo; ivory white, greyish, beige or brownish grey; smooth and silky, with radial fibrils; the margin is curved and wavy.
- The hymenium is composed of adnate to almost free gills, quite sinuate, first yellowish and then pinkish.
- The stem (6-15 cm x 1,5-3 cm, approx.) is cylindrical, robust and fibrous; its color ranges from ivory white to cream; sometimes bulbous at the base.
- Both the ring and volva are absent.
Habitat: Broadleaf woodlands (e.g. cork oak, chestnut, oak, beech).
WARNING: It is a TOXIC and quite POISONOUS species!
PHOTOS (All the following photos were taken in the Alentejo region, southern Portugal).
Entoloma sinuatum © David Germano | All rights reserved.
Entoloma sinuatum © David Germano | All rights reserved.
Entoloma sinuatum © David Germano | All rights reserved.
Entoloma sinuatum © David Germano | All rights reserved.
Entoloma sinuatum © David Germano | All rights reserved.
