vanilla odor, peppery taste, white solid stalk and slightly browning or yellowing cap, does not bruise easily, soft and brittle, surface shiny when wet and dull when dry, white equidistant gills that are moderately thick, no lamellulae, brownish margin, smooth pileus texture that is slimy when wet, whole decurved margin, no latex, central solid stipe that is brittle and white, fusiform in shape, smooth surface, white flesh
magnified study revealed white spore print that has warty ornamentation, spore ornamentation stains blue with Melzers, spores are thin-walled with presence of cystidia,
Collector
Kalen Dofher
Number
KD2810202307
Other Collectors
Daniyal Khuhro, Gia Khanna
Determined by
Daniyal Khuhro
Host Substratum
On moist soil near the mossy base of a Douglas fir
Notes
mushroom turned black in drier, only able to find young species of mushroom
Habitat
Growing near the base of a large Douglas Fir, surrounding area of growth was mossy, appeared to be growing through the sphagnum moss
Material collected: gilled mushroom
Habit: 1 solitary or scattered
Color of top surface: 3 pale yellow or cream
Secondary color top surface: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Spore print color: 1 white
Hymenium color when young: 1 white
Hymenium color when mature: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Spore length: 49
Spore width: 49
Smell: 1 anise, fruity, sweet
Taste: 1 acrid/peppery
Flesh hardness: 1 soft-spongy, including gelatinous
Cap shape in center: 2 even or flat
Cap shape from above: 1 circular-even if wavy
Cap color with age: 3 pale yellow or cream
Cap stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Cap width: 1320
Cap surface texture: 2 smooth
Cap stickiness: 3 sticky or slimy when wet
Cap has concentric zones of color: No
Cap stalk easily part: Yes
Cap hygrophanous: No
Cap flesh color: 1 white
Cap flesh stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Flesh toughness: 2 easy to break or tear, but not fragile
Flesh fracture: 4 brittle or crumbly
Cap cross section: 2 recurved
Cap margin surface: 2 smooth
Cap edge: 1 smooth
Stipe shape: 3 equal
Stipe core: 1 solid
Stipe position: 1 central
Stipe flesh hardness: 1 soft-spongy, including gelatinous
Stipe flesh toughness: 2 easy to break or tear, but not fragile
Stipe flesh fracture: 4 brittle or crumbly
Stipe flesh color: 1 white
Stipe flesh stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Stipe primary color: 1 white
Stipe secondary color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Stipe stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Stipe surface texture: 10 smooth
Stipe width: 310
Stipe length: 2032
Gill attachment: 1 adnate
Gill collarium: No
Gill sawtooth edge: No
Hymenium stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Gills break from cap: No
Gills deliquescent: No
Gills mottled face: No
Gills secede from stalk: No
Gills waxy feel: No
Gills anastomosing: No
Gills forked: No
Ring type: 5 none
Partial veil type: 5 none
Ring location on stalk: 5 none
Ring number: 3 none
Ring color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Volva type: 6 none
Volva color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Latex color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Latex stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Reaction ammonia color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Reaction Fe. Sul. color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Reaction Melzer's color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Reaction potassium: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Spore shape: 6 circular
Spore ornamentation: warty ornamentation, blue in Melzer's
cystidia: Present as Pleuro and Cheilocystidia
clamp connections: Not seen
cap cuticle type: Not looked for
trama type: No specific orientation or distinguishing features
