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Anise-Scented Clitocybe
Scientific Name: Clitocybe odora
Family Name: Tricholomataceae
Edibility: Edible
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Description: Cap: 1 - 4 inches (2.5 - 10 cm) wide; convex to flat or somewhat sunken; margin incurved, becoming wavy and uplifted; moist, smooth; dingy green to bluish-green, sometimes blue or nearly white. Gills: attached or slightly descending stalk, close, broad; whitish to buff or green-tinged. Stalk: 1 - 3 inches (2.5 - 7.5 cm) long, 1/8 - 5/9 inch (0.3 - 1.5 cm) thick, sometimes enlarged above or below; whitish or tinged greenish; base often spongy or covered with white threads (mycelium). Spores: 6 - 7 x 3 - 4 microns; elliptical, smooth, colorless. Spore print pinkish-cream. Edibility: Edible. Season: July - September; November - February in California. Habitat: Scattered to numeros, in oak woods. Range: Widely distributed in North America. Look-alikes: Clitocybe fragrans is smaller, whitish. Comments: A West Coast variety, var. pacifica under conifers, is green all over. [Lincoff, Gary H., The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981]