Family: Paxillaceae

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Members of this family are of a medium to large size fleshy fungi. There caps have an involuted margin, decurrent gills which are either thin or thick and moderately crowded. Which either repeatedly forked or interveined and easily separable from the cap. The spore are normally brown with out a germ pore.

Genus: Paxillus

Species: Paxillus involutus (Batsch ex Fr.)Fr. An introduced species, associated with silver birch trees. Bruises brown when damaged.
Common Name: None Found: Under Silver Birch Substrate: On the ground Spore: Brown	Height: 100 mm Width: 120 mm Season: Autumn Edible: Poisonous

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