North Vancouver, Capilano River Regional Park, Coho Loop Trail, closest to Coho Loop Trail and Great Fir Trail intersection
Latitude
49.3546
Longitude
-123.1114
Altitude
65 m
Date
20/10/2024 (DD/MM/YYYY)
GeneBank Accession Number
Morphological Description
Collector
Michelle Ho
Number
mh2024oct19.1
Other Collectors
Thienan Le, Madeline Kachura, Jasreet Dhillon
Determined by
Michelle Ho
Host Substratum
Notes
Tan brown cap, rigid tan brown stem with chalky white patches, cream coloured gills and spores, bruises turquoise blue, turns dark blue with Melzer's reagent
Habitat
On forest soil, near decaying and leafy plants
DNA sequence in GeneBank
Name of Sequencer
Specimen Images
Cap shape when mature
3 convex to plane
phylum
Basidiomycota
material collected
gilled mushroom
morphology summary
Material collected: gilled mushroom
Habit: 1 solitary or scattered
Color of top surface: 8 tan - light brown
Secondary color top surface: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Spore print color: 3 pale yellow or cream
Hymenium color when young: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Hymenium color when mature: 3 pale yellow or cream
Spore length: 7.48
Spore width: 6.38
Smell: 1 anise, fruity, sweet
Taste: 3 mild/none
Flesh hardness: 2 firm, fleshy
Cap shape when mature: 3 convex to plane
Cap shape in center: 3 depressed
Cap shape from above: 1 circular-even if wavy
Cap width: 12
Cap surface texture: 3 rough, wrinkled, cracked, warts
Cap stickiness: 2 sticky or slimy when dry
Cap has concentric zones of color: No
Cap stalk easily part: No
Cap hygrophanous: No
Cap flesh color: 8 tan - light brown
Flesh toughness: 2 easy to break or tear, but not fragile
Cap cross section: 3 incurved
Cap margin surface: 1 pleated, grooved, streaked, or ribbed(edge)
Cap edge: 1 smooth
Stipe shape: 3 equal
Stipe core: 2 hollow
Stipe position: 1 central
Stipe flesh hardness: 2 firm, fleshy
Stipe flesh toughness: 2 easy to break or tear, but not fragile
Stipe flesh color: 8 tan - light brown
Stipe primary color: 8 tan - light brown
Stipe secondary color: 1 white
Stipe width: 55
Stipe length: 14
Gill attachment: 3 decurrent
Gill collarium: No
Gills break from cap: No
Gills deliquescent: No
Gills waxy feel: 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
Latex color: 7 red
Latex stain color: 7 red
Reaction Melzer's color: 15 black or dark gray
Spore shape: 3 elliptical
Spore ornamentation: Aculeata
cystidia: Pleuromacrocystidia
