Choiromyces meandriformis

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By Roger Phillips

Published 2006

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Choiromyces meandriformis Vittad. (illustrated 65% life size) Fruit body 4–12cm across, irregularly subglobose; yellowish-brown. Flesh whitish to yellowish, marbled; smell strongly aromatic. Spores 16×21¼ in diameter, globose, covered in blunt spines. Spore print yellow. Asci 180×70¼, 8-spored. Habitat on soil surface in deciduous and mixed woods. Rare. Edibility unknown.