A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

olivascent, becoming olive-green; (fungi) “becoming olivaceous” (S&D): olivascens,-entis (part.B) [perhaps from L. olivans,-antis (s.m.III), a participial form but as a substantive (noun) “an olive-gatherer” (Lewis & Short)]; put sub ‘color’

- [fungi] color fungi adolescentis vegetique plerumque ex aurantio sordide ruber, in stipite laetior, flavus; senio ingruente olivascit, dein nigrescit. Radiculae saepe insignes (S&A), the color of the adolescent fungus and vigorous [i.e. fully developed] usually orange to a dirty red, lighter on the stipe, yellow; it becomes olive-green when attacked by an older age, then it becomes black.

- [fungus] pileo umbonato hemisphaerico-plano e cervino olivascente squamulis subsquarrosis obscurioribus hirto, cortina subannulata (S&A), with an umbonate hemispheric pileus to flat, from tawny- [i.e. deer-] colored to olivascent, hirtous with more obscure nearly square little scales, with the cortina nearly annulate.