Cap
size: 6.0cm - 7.5cm;
shape: convex, centre depressed, decurved margin;
color: rusty; surface: smooth;
cap margin: striate, eroded, split, wavy
odor: earthy
taste: acrid/peppery
Gill
attachment: adnate
breadth: broad
thickness: average
spacing: close
color: creamy
edge: settate
misc: waxy, unequal
Stem
location: central
shape: round, equal, flexuous
surface: longitudinally striate
Habit: single, solitary
Habitat: terrestrial
Plant associated: ash
Collector
Andrew Ho
Number
AH1
Other Collectors
none
Determined by
Andrew Ho
Host Substratum
Notes
Habitat
the mushroom was grown on the ground under Ash tree, and found near to the entry of the Capilano River Regional Park
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: 10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Secondary color top surface: 8 tan - light brown
Spore print color: 3 pale yellow or cream
Spore length: 7
Spore width: 6.4
Smell: 6 other
Taste: 1 acrid/peppery
Flesh hardness: 1 soft-spongy, including gelatinous
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: 10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Cap stain color: 1 white
Cap width: 5075
Cap surface texture: 2 smooth
Cap stickiness: 2 sticky or slimy when dry
Cap stalk easily part: No
Cap flesh color: 10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Cap flesh stain color: 1 white
Flesh toughness: 3 tough - does not tear easily
Cap cross section: 3 incurved
Cap margin surface: 1 pleated, grooved, streaked, or ribbed(edge)
Cap edge: 2 wavy or lobed
Stipe shape: 3 equal
Stipe core: 1 solid
Stipe position: 1 central
Stipe flesh hardness: 1 soft-spongy, including gelatinous
Stipe flesh toughness: 3 tough - does not tear easily
Stipe flesh fracture: 3 fibrous-tears easier in one direction
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: 1 reticulate - net-like lines anywhere on the stalk
Stipe width: 1525
Stipe length: 4595
Gill attachment: 1 adnate
Hymenium stain color: 3 pale yellow or cream
Gills break from cap: No
Gills deliquescent: No
Gills mottled face: No
Gills secede from stalk: No
Gills waxy feel: Yes
Gills forked: No
Ring type: 5 none
Partial veil type: 5 none
Ring location on stalk: 5 none
Ring number: 3 none
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: 3 elliptical
Spore ornamentation: 2 rough
