Pluteus cervinus

Deer/Fawn Mushroom

Pluteus cervinus - Deer or Fawn Mushroom

Family Pluteaceae

Basidiomycota - gilled mushroom

Cap:  4.5 - 10cm, convex then broadluy convex till finally nearly flat; with or without broad central bump (umbo); tacky when fresh , but soon dry; bald or finely scaly/fibrillose over centre; often radially streaked; dark to pale brwon in colour often with hints of olive or grey, with brown to brownish centre. Margin sometimes lined in older specimens.

Gills: free from stem, close or crowded; white at first becoming pink and eventually deep flesh colour.

Stem: 5-13cm long by 5-15mm thick; more or less equal or with enlarged base, dry; balt or finely fibrillose with brown fibrils; whitish, dicolouring brownish near base. Basal mycelium white.

Flesh: soft, white, unchanging when sliced.

Spore Print: brownish pink.

Reference: Mushroom Expert.Com by Michael Kuo

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Species information

• Pluteus cervinus Scientific name
• Deer/Fawn Mushroom Common name
• Not Sensitive
• Cosmopolitan
• Non-Invasive

Location information

• Maps

  Coomee Nulunga Cultural Walking Track

• Places

  Ulladulla, NSW

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