How to identify No common English name (Canarium Oudemansiella)

To correctly identify No common English name (Canarium Oudemansiella) (Oudemansiella canarii), check each of these features in order. Misidentification is the most common cause of mushroom poisoning, so cross-reference multiple sources.

Step-by-step identification

1. 1

   Cap

   Shape, color, surface texture, and diameter.

   3-12 cm in diameter, convex to broadly convex or plano-convex, sometimes with a broad umbo. Surface is smooth, varying from dry to highly viscid or glutinous, especially when moist. Color ranges from whitish, cream, pale yellow, dull yellow-brown, cinnamon-brown, or reddish-brown, often darker towards the center or with faint radiating fibrils. Margin is usually striate or sulcate when moist.

2. 2

   Gills

   Attachment to stem, color, and spacing.

   Adnexed to adnate, sometimes nearly free, broad, very distant, often ventricose. White to cream, occasionally with a yellowish tint. Gill edges are entire.

3. 3

   Stem

   Length, shape, surface, and any ring.

   5-30 cm long, 0.4-1.5 cm thick, slender to robust, central, cylindrical or tapering slightly upwards, often with a distinctly elongated, rooting base that can extend deep into the substrate. Surface is dry, typically smooth or finely striate above, often pruinose at the apex, sometimes finely scaly or fibrillose towards the base. Color is whitish to pale brown or concolorous with the cap, often darker at the base. Tough and cartilaginous.

4. 4

   Flesh

   Color, texture, and bruising reaction.

   Thin in the cap, whitish to pale cream, firm to tough. Odor and taste are generally mild or indistinct.

5. 5

   Fruiting body

   Overall growth pattern.

   Typically agaricoid, with a distinct cap, gills, and stem.

6. 6

   Habitat

   Where it grows and on what substrate.

   Typically solitary or scattered, growing saprobically on buried hardwood (Angiosperm) logs, roots, or wood debris, often appearing terrestrial due to the deeply rooting stem. Occasionally found on visible decaying wood.

Key Facts

Cap surfaces

Smooth, dry to highly viscid or glutinous.

Growth Form

Solitary to scattered.

Spore Print

White.

Body color

Whitish, cream, pale yellow to dull yellow-brown, cinnamon-brown, or reddish-brown.

Odor

Mild, indistinct.

Flesh bruises

Does not bruise significantly.

Height

5-30 cm

Cap Diameter

3-12 cm

Fruit body characteristics

• Gill attachment: Adnexed to adnate, sometimes nearly free.
• Stem shape: Cylindrical or tapering slightly upwards, with a rooting base.
• Stem surface: Dry, smooth or finely striate above, often pruinose at apex.
• Ring: Absent.
• Stem cross-section: Solid, tough, cartilaginous.

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