The mushroom was solitary. There were no members of the same species found anywhere close by. This was a mature mushroom when collected, therefore that is why it was hard to determine its characteristic appearnce as a young mushroom required for a proper identification.
Habitat
The mushroom was growing on the humus of connifer needles (which were rotten). It was surronded by the hemlock and other conifers.
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: 7 red
Spore print color: 1 white
Hymenium color when young: 1 white
Hymenium color when mature: 1 white
Spore length: 10
Smell: 2 mild/none
Taste: 1 acrid/peppery
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 color with age: 7 red
Cap width: 6
Cap surface texture: 2 smooth
Cap stickiness: 3 sticky or slimy when wet
Cap has concentric zones of color: No
Cap stalk easily part: No
Cap hygrophanous: No
Flesh toughness: 1 fragile - difficult to handle without damage
Flesh fracture: 4 brittle or crumbly
Cap cross section: 3 incurved
Cap edge: 1 smooth
Stipe shape: 2 clavate
Stipe core: 1 solid
Stipe position: 1 central
Stipe flesh hardness: 2 firm, fleshy
Stipe flesh toughness: 1 fragile - difficult to handle without damage
Stipe flesh fracture: 4 brittle or crumbly
Stipe primary color: 1 white
Stipe surface texture: 10 smooth
Stipe width: 20
Stipe length: 80
Gill attachment: 1 adnate
Gill collarium: No
Gill sawtooth edge: No
Hymenium stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
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 number: 3 none
Volva type: 6 none
Latex color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Spore shape: 3 elliptical
Spore ornamentation: 2 rough
trama type: irregular with sphaerocysts
