Hebeloma vinosophyllum

Figure 4.7 Hebeloma vinosophyllum (arrowhead) fruiting beside the skull of an abandoned domestic cat body. The wrapped body seemed to have initially been buried 80-90 cm away but to have been dug out and moved by some animals. Place and date Quercus forest, Hyogo, Japan, September 20, 1989. The folded scale is 51.5 cm long.

Basidiospore germination in the AF, both of EP species (Coprinus spp.) and LP species (Hebeloma vinosophyllum), is stimulated by a sufficient concentration of NH4+-N under alkaline to neutral conditions (Suzuki 1978 Suzuki et al. 1982). This suggests that they might start growth only after a sudden and abundant release of ammonia and that they might exist latently in the normal (i.e., untreated) soil in the form of basidiospores (Yamanaka 2002). 

Takayama, S. and Sagara, N. (1981). The occurrence of Hebeloma vinosophyllum on soil after decomposition of the corpse of domestic rabbit. Trans. Mycol. Soc. Japan 22, 475-477 (in Japanese with English figure legends). 

Alnicola lactariolens Clemen on et Hongo (Fukiharu and Hongo 1995 confused with Hebeloma vinosophyllum in Sagara 1973,1975), L... 

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