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Sweetbread Mushroom

Clitopilus prunulus

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 868, February 641, March 1,005, April 1,581, May 2,279, June 2,485, July 2,660, August 2,287, September 1,679, October 1,253, November 685, December 535.
United States19,107
Alaska17,960
Canada298
California292
Germany143
Ontario117
New York115
Washington98
United Kingdom78
Russia78

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Ecological

  • DecomposerBreaks down dead organic matter, recycling nutrientsFrom its classification

Group and habits

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

KingdomFungi Including Lichens · Fungi
PhylumBasidiomycete Fungi · Basidiomycota
ClassMushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies · Agaricomycetes
OrderCommon Gilled Mushrooms and Allies · Agaricales
FamilyEntolomataceae
GenusClitopilus

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Sweetbread Mushroom with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.