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Paxillus

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Paxillus 

a genus of hymenomycetous mushrooms of the group of gill fungi. The best-known species, P. involutus, has a brownish yellow impressed cap measuring 6–20 cm in diameter and having a tightly curved tomentose margin. The gills are slightly separated from the flesh of the cap; the thallus is short and thick. The flesh darkens in air. The mushrooms most commonly grow in groups in sunny birch forests from June to October. Consumption of the mushrooms raw often causes poisoning.



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Steeve Bonneville of the University of Leeds in England and his colleagues set up a lab test to study the effects of the fungi Paxillus involutus on biotite, a potassium-rich mineral found in granite and other rock types.
 
 
 
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