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Gymnopilus validipes

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Kingdom
  
Fungi

Class
  
Agaricomycetes

Family
  
Cortinariaceae

Scientific name
  
Gymnopilus validipes

Division
  
Basidiomycota

Order
  
Agaricales

Genus
  
Gymnopilus

Rank
  
Species

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Gymnopilus viridans, Gymnopilus braendlei, Gymnopilus purpuratus, Gymnopilus luteus, Psilocybe graveolens

Gymnopilus validipes is a widely distributed mushroom of North America and Europe. Gymnopilus validipes contains the hallucinogens psilocybin and psilocin. The mild taste of this mushroom stands in contrast to closely related bitter species. Validipes means "having a robust stalk." Gymnopilus validipes contains about 0.12% psilocybin.

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Description

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  • Pileus: (4)7.5 — 15(30) cm, Convex to broadly convex, margin deeply incurved at first, becoming revolute with age, dry, fibrillose or with small ochraceous brown scales, pale-yellow or ochraceous buff, flesh soft, whitish, yellowish near the gills.
  • Gills: Adnate to uncinate, close, thin, yellowish white becoming cinnamon.
  • Spore Print: Orangish brown.
  • Stipe: (7.5)10 — 13(25) cm. long, (1.5)2.5 – 5 cm. thick, equal or swelling in the middle, fleshy-fibrous, solid, elastic, fibrillose, concolorous, white within, the cortina leaves only a faint ring on the robust stalk.
  • Taste: Mild.
  • Odor: Pleasant.
  • Microscopic features: Spores (7.5)8 — 10 X 5 — 6, ellipsoid.

    • Habitat and formation

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    Gymnopilus validipes is found growing gregarious (in groups) to cespitose (in dense clumps) on tree stumps, hardwood logs and debris, widespread in the United States, common from the Great Lakes and eastward.

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    References

    Gymnopilus validipes Wikipedia
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