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2.9
Coprinus
| Is the cap pure white?
Yes |
Is the cap colored?
Yes |
| Is the veil absent; fibrils on cap rub off revealing
gray to black surface?
Yes |
Is the veil present with faint hairy rig cap and the
cuticles white?
Yes |
| Is the cap .2" - .8" conic, striate to deeply
striate? ...........
............ ....................
Yes |
Is the cap 1" - 3", 1.5" - 5"
tall, conic, if striate or wrinkled just over margin?
Yes |
| Does it grow singly to several on grass, dung, or
humus?
Yes |
Does it grow in great numbers on well decayed wood?
Yes |
| Does it grow in the grass; gills free but attached by a
collar? ...........
...................
Yes |
Does it grow on dung or well-decayed humus; gills not
attached to a collar?
Yes |
| Is the cap yellow-brown with fine white hairs over
center?
Yes |
Is the cap yellow-brown without white hairs? .....................
Yes |
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You have a C. disseminatus |
| Is the cap conic, gray-brown, scaly just over center;
usually growing in grass? .................
Yes |
Is the cap reddish-brown, covered over center with
glistening particles?
Yes |
Is the cap narrowly conical, white with light
reddish-brown recurved scales? .................
.......................
Yes |
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You have a C. artramentarius |
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