tomentum
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The plants are small, obconic, truncate, broadly open; externally ferruginous, with a hairy tomentum, internally lead-color, smooth, striated.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
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 stem is short, solid or with a slight cavity, often slightly thickened at the top, pruinose, gray, with a white, mycelioid tomentum at the base.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
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 William Cornwallis Harris
It makes a dense bush, with medium-sized leaves, green above, and covered with a dense greyish tomentum beneath.
From Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens by Ernest Thomas Cook
