Hygrophorus kiona paʻepaʻe (Cuphophyllus virgineus) ata ma faʻamatalaga

Hygrophorus snow white (Cuphophyllus virgineus)

Systematics:
  • Vaega: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
  • Vaevaega: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
  • Vasega: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
  • Vasega laiti: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
  • Poloaiga: Agaricales (Agaric poʻo Lamellar)
  • Aiga: Hygrophoraceae (Hygrophoraceae)
  • Rod: Cuphophyllus
  • ituaiga: Cuphophyllus virgineus (Snow white hygrophorus)

Hygrophorus kiona paʻepaʻe (Cuphophyllus virgineus) ata ma faʻamatalaga

Fa'amatalaga i fafo

Mushroom with small white fruiting bodies. At first, a convex, then prostrate hat with a diameter of 1-3 cm, by old age the middle is pressed in, has a translucent or ribbed edge, wavy-curved, thin, sometimes sticky, pure white, then whitish. Rare white plates descending to a cylindrical, smooth, widening at the top leg 2-4 mm thick and 2-4 cm long. Ellipsoid, smooth, colorless spores 8-12 x 5-6 microns.

Mea'ai

'aina.

Nofoaga

Grows profusely on soil in grass on vast pastures, meadows, in old parks overgrown with grass, rarely found in light forests.

Hygrophorus kiona paʻepaʻe (Cuphophyllus virgineus) ata ma faʻamatalaga

tau

Summer autumn.

Ituaiga tutusa

It is similar to the edible hygrophorus maiden, which is distinguished by larger, drier, rather fleshy fruiting bodies.

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