tomentum
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The pubescence or tomentum is more prominent on the intermediate zones.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson
The caps are convex, covered with a tawny-brown fibrillose tomentum.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
The upper cap is pliable, compact, soft, and covered with a soft tomentum, the lower cap, contiguous with the stem, is woody and corky.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
The stem is twisted, subcompressed, sprinkled with a mealy tomentum above, umber below, hollow, rather long, unequal.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
It is dwarf, spreading, little more than a foot high, with ovate leaves with brownish tomentum on the under surface.
From Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens by Ernest Thomas Cook
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