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Monday, October 20, 2008

Even In A Fallen State We Eat From The Hand Of God



FALL FOOD FROM GOD




Gomphus Clavatus
Gomphus clavatus
(Photo: © Michael Wood)

Gomphus clavatus Pers.: S. F. Gray
Nat Arr. Brit. Pl. 1: 638. 1821.

Common Name: Pig's Ears

Even Alexis Lavrentivitch Ignatius Eldred Williams will eat these.

Synonym: Cantharellus clavatus Fries

  • Pileus

    Caps up to 10 cm broad, at first clavate, the apex truncate, expanding to form a vase-shape fuiting body, one side typically showing greater developement than the other; margin undulate to lobed, upturned in age; surface moist, soon dry, smooth to finely squamulose, especially near the disk, the latter often depressed; lavender-purple to purple-brown when young, fading to buff-brown in age, the margin sometimes retaining lilac tones; flesh thick, white to pale buff; odor and taste mild, of mushrooms.

  • Hymenium

    Fertile surface decurrent, varing from blunt, interconnecting ridges to anastamosing veins, and wrinkles, occasionally nearly poroid; lilac-purple to purple-brown fading in age.

  • Stipe

    Stipe up to 5 cm long, 1-3 cm thick, short, solid, sometimes hollow at maturity, central to laterally attached, tapering downward, the apex merging with and indistinguishable from the hymenium/cap; often fused at the base with adjacent fruiting bodies; surface slightly fibrillose to hairy, lilac-brown apically, white to pale brown below; flesh white, unchanging.

  • Spores

    Spores 10-14 x 5-7.5 µm, elliptical, wrinkled to slightly warted, nonamyloid; pale yellowish-buff in deposit.

  • Habitat

    Singly, in cespitose clusters and arcs under conifers; fruiting from late fall to mid-winter.

  • Edibility

    EdibleDescribed as edible and choice by some authors, but usually regarded as mediocre locally; often infested with fly larva.

  • Comments

    Gomphus clavatus is characterized by a clustered habit, lilac-colored, wrinkled hymenium and club-shaped to partially funnel-shaped fruiting body. The lilac color easily distinguishes it from Gomphus floccosus f. floccosus and G. bonari.

  • References

    Corner, E.J.H. (1966). A Monograph of Cantharelloid Fungi. Oxford University Press: London, England. 255 p.
    Giachini A. (2004). Systematics, Phylogeny, and Ecology of Gomphus sensu lato. Ph.D. Dissertation. Oregon State University: Corvalis, OR. 446 p.
    Smith, A.H. (1949). Mushrooms in their Natural Habitats. Sawyer's Inc: Portland, OR. 626 p.
    Smith, A.H. & Morse, E.E. (1947). The genus Cantharellus in the western United States. Mycologia 39(5): 497-534.
    Thiers, H.D.(1985). The Agaricales (Gilled Fungi) of California. 3. Gomphidiaceae. Mad River Press: Eureka, CA. 20 p.
    Watling, R. & Turnbull, E. (1998). British Fungus Flora: Agarics and Boleti. Vol 8. Cantharellaceae, Gomphaceae, and Amyloid-Spored and Xeruloid Members of Tricholomataceae (excl. Mycena). Royal Botanic Garden: Edinburgh, Scotland. 189 p.

  • Other Descriptions and Photos
    • Boleslaw Kuznik: Gomphus clavatus (CP)
    • Boleslaw Kuznik: Gomphus clavatus (CP)
    • Michael Wood: Gomphus clavatus (CP) Click for Big!
    • Boleslaw Kuznik: Gomphus clavatus (CP)
    • Handbook to Additional Fungal Species of Special Concern in the Northwest Forest Plan: Gomphus clavatus (D & CP)
    • Boleslaw Kuznik -- Hunting for Mushrooms: Gomphus clavatus (CP)
    • Il Mondo dei Funghi: Gomphus clavatus (D & CP)
    • Svampbok: Gomphus clavatus (D & CP)
    • Mushroom Observer: Gomphus clavatus (CP)
    • Arora (1986): p. 661 (D), plate 176
    • Arora (1991): p. 7 (D & CP)
    • Breitenbach & Kränzlin (vol. 2): sp. 480 (D, I, & CP)
    • Lincoff: p. 396 (D), plate 440 (CP)
    • McKenny et al.: p. 28 (D), p. 29 (CP)
    • Miller: sp. 265 (D & CP)
    • Phillips: p. 212 (CP), p. 213 (D)
    • Smith & Weber: sp. 55 D & CP) [Cantharellus clavatus]
    • Thiers (1985): p. 22 (D)

    (D=Description; I=Illustration; P=Photo; CP=Color Photo)