tomentum
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The stem is equal, hollow, smooth, grayish-brown with a whitish mycelioid tomentum at the base.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
The plant is quite hardy and easily identified because of its long and slender stem, with the grayish tomentum at the base.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
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 Hard, Miron Elisha
The leaf has a yellow tomentum below; and the fruit forms a favourite food of monkeys and of various birds, but is not touched by man.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis
P. 6-9 cm. hard, exp. unequal, dry, with adpressed tan tomentum, rimoso-rivulose; g. emarginate, white then tan; s. 2.5-3 cm. hard, stout, pallid, with white fibrils; sp. ——. var. fulvobrunneus, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
