Aborted entoloma

Entoloma abortivum

Fungusstrong against amphibians, reptiles

Common

Mycelium

While active with another fungus in play, it regains 5 HP at the start of your turn (8 with two others).

Entoloma abortivum

Photo: © Fluff Berger (original photo) · CC BY-SA 4.0 (licence text) · cropped

In battle

Strong against

Amphibians
Reptiles

Weak against

Mammals
Insects

Strong against: it deals 20% more damage to them. Weak against: these types deal 20% more damage to it.

The species

Entoloma abortivum, commonly known as the aborted entoloma or shrimp of the woods, is a mushroom in the Entolomataceae family of fungi. First named Clitopilus abortivus by Miles Joseph Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis, it was given its current name by the Dutch mycologist Marinus Anton Donk in 1949.

The grayish cap is up to 8 centimetres (3.1 in) wide. The stem is up to 9 cm long and 1.4 cm (1⁄2 in) thick. The smell is mealy and the spore print is pinkish.

It was once believed that the honey mushroom, Armillaria mellea, was parasitizing the Entoloma, but research has indicated that the inverse is true—the Entoloma parasitizes the honey mushroom. It is rare that a mushroom-forming fungus can parasitize the reproductive structures of another mushroom-forming fungus. There are over 1,500 species of Entolomataceae the family that contains the Entoloma genus and the majority are saprotrophic, meaning they get nutrients from decomposing dead organic material.

In Mexico it is called Totlcoxcatl ('turkey wattle') due to its irregular shape. Caution should be used in identifying the species before eating, with similar species such as Entoloma sinuatum being poisonous.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Entoloma abortivum, by its authors, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

No global status on the IUCN Red List: that’s what makes this card Common.

Observations: 11,711 on iNaturalist

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