Bleachy Entoloma | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Agaricales |
Family: | Entolomataceae |
Genus: | Entoloma |
Species: | E. ferruginans
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Binomial name | |
Entoloma ferruginans Peck, 1895
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Jengod/FungiDraft | |
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![]() | Gills on hymenium |
![]() | Cap is convex |
![]() ![]() | Spore print is pink to salmon |
![]() | Edibility is not recommended |
Entoloma ferruginans is an endemic mushroom of California in North America. It smells distinctly like a chlorinated pool at the YMCA, thus the common name bleachy entoloma. E. ferruginans lives in mycorrhizal association with live oaks south of the San Francisco Bay.[1] This mushroom was first described by Charles Horton Peck in 1895 from a type specimen collected under oak trees in Pasadena.[2]