Clustered Toughshank Mushroom

Collybiopsis confluens

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About this fungus

Clustered Toughshank Mushroom is listed in the Shroomify field guide as a gills fungus in the Omphalotaceae family. In leaf litter and humus in broad-leaved and mixed woodland, occasionally conifer plantations and sometimes above buried dead wood.

A note on identification
This profile is a guide rather than a guarantee. If you are considering eating a wild mushroom, check the whole specimen and its possible lookalikes carefully. Do not eat it if you are unsure of the identification.

Photographs

Another view of Clustered Toughshank Mushroom

What the records suggest about Clustered Toughshank Mushroom

The project has analysed over a million matched fungal events from Europe and North America alongside weather and habitat data. The patterns may be useful wherever the same fungus occurs, but local climate, trees and soils can change the response. Ground preferences are drawn from British bedrock records and may need local confirmation elsewhere.

Ground and bedrock

This fungus tends to favour acid ground rather than chalk or limestone.

Elevation

Records tended to come from higher ground, about 152 metres above the average elevation of fungal records in the study.

Weather or season?

The normal seasonal pattern is the more useful guide here. No short-term weather effect passed the project’s checks for a clear, repeatable link.