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Pluteus salicinus

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Kingdom
  
Fungi

Order
  
Agaricales

Genus
  
Pluteus

Higher classification
  
Pluteus

Division
  
Basidiomycota

Family
  
Pluteaceae

Scientific name
  
Pluteus salicinus

Rank
  
Species

Pluteus salicinus Pluteus salicinus Mushroom Hunting and Identification Shroomery

Similar
  
Pluteus, Conocybe cyanopus, Panaeolus fimicola, Gymnopilus luteofolius, Gymnopilus aeruginosus

Pluteus salicinus is a European psychedelic mushroom that grows on wood. It is an edible mushroom after parboiling.

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Taxonomy

Pluteus salicinus Pluteus salicinus Mushroom Hunting and Identification Shroomery

The species was originally described by Christian Hendrik Persoon as Agaricus salicinus in 1798. Paul Kummer transferred it to the genus Pluteus in 1871.

Description

Pluteus salicinus Willow Shield Pluteus salicinus

  • Cap: 2 — 5(8) cm in diameter, convex becoming broadly convex to plane, silver-gray to brownish-gray, often with blue or greenish tint in age, smooth, with tiny scales near the center, darker at the margin, slightly translucent-striate when moist, unlined cap margin, flesh white with a grayish tinge, thin to moderate. Cap skin fibrous.
  • Gills: Crowded, broad, free, at first white, becoming pink-flesh colored; ventricose. Edges discoloring or bruising grayish.
  • Stipe: 3 — 5(10) long, 0.2 — 0.6 cm thick, more or less equal or slightly swollen at the base, flesh white with grayish-green to bluish-green tones, especially near the base. Ring absent. Firm, full or stuffed.
  • Taste: Unpleasant, indefinite or somewhat raphanoid (like radish).
  • Odor: Unpleasant, indefinite or somewhat raphanoid.
  • Spores: pink, smooth, 7 — 8.5 x 5 - 6 µm. Spore print pink-flesh colored to brown-pink.
  • Microscopic features: Pleurocystidia fusiform with slightly thickened walls 50 — 70 x 11 — 18 µm; with 3 — 5 horn-like projections.

    • Habitat and distribution

    Pluteus salicinus Pluteus salicinus SPECIES AND STRAINS OF ENTEOGENIC PSILOCYBE

    This mushroom is widely distributed across western Europe and Siberia. It is found on hardwoods - Alnus, Eucalyptus, Fagus, Populus and Quercus.

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    It is always found growing on wood. Summer-fall, solitary or gregarious on dead wood of hardwoods, in damp forests on flood-plains.

    Common Name

    Pluteus salicinus Pluteus salicinus Mushroom Hunting and Identification Shroomery

    The 'Knackers Crumpet' is a localised, common name referring to Pluteus salicinus. Its use is most prominent in the North of England.

    Chemistry

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    The concentration of psilocybin and psilocin in the dried sample of P. salicinus has been reported in the range of 0.21-0.35 and 0.011-0.05%, respectively.

    References

    Pluteus salicinus Wikipedia
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