Common Edible Mushrooms

PURPLE OR PURPLE-BROWN SPORE PRINT
Figure 48. Hypholoma sublateritium (Brick-red
Hypholoma). Edible.
Edible: HYPHOLOMA SUBLATERITIUM (Brick-red
Hypholoma)
The common name of this plant (Figure 48 and Plate zB) is
descriptive of the color of the cap, which is from i to 4 inches
wide, convex, reddish brown in the center, paler toward the margin.
The gills of young specimens are at first pale gray, but as
the spores mature they become grayish brown, then purplebrown.
The stem is from 2 to 5 inches long, slender and curved,
the upper part pale and the lower portion colored reddish brown
like the cap. The plant grows in dense clumps around decaying
stumps and tree roots. It is likely to be common in the fall.
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