Species
Clitopilus prunulus (Sweetbread mushroom)
Clitopilus prunulus. Photo: (c) Tatiana Bulyonkova, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
Clitopilus prunulus, commonly known as the miller or the sweetbread mushroom, is an edible pink-spored basidiomycete mushroom found in grasslands in Europe and North America. Growing solitary to gregarious in open areas of conifer/hardwood forests; common under Bishop pine (Pinus muricata) along the coast north of San Francisco; fruiting shortly after the fall rains. It has a grey to white cap and decurrent gills.
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