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Illustration for the term "fuscous".

From the New York Mycological Society Autumn 2011 newsletter, by Jason Cortlund, Editor, "fuscous" is defined as:

"From the Latin fuscus meaning dark, swarthy, or tawny. The adjective "Fuscous" (pronounced FUHS' kuhs) is a color description that refers to something of a brownish-grey hue or something that is dark or dusky. The bolete commonly referred to as Old Man of the Woods (Strobilomyces floccopus) certainly fits that description."



Fuscous
Fuscous
watercolor, GIMP
2011

I revised this piece for Leon Shernoff's Journal of Wild Mushrooming 2020 issue where we revisit Mycological Terms Defined, first illustrated for the New York Mycological Society newsletter.