Just off path, Capilino River Regional Park, North Vancouver.
Latitude
N49 21.47
Longitude
W123 06.79
Altitude
~100 M
Date
26/10/2002 (DD/MM/YYYY)
GeneBank Accession Number
AY228350
Morphological Description
-flavour highly acrid and spicy
-cap mottled pink and yellow on top to slightly reddish in center
-does not chang ecolour when wet or bruise in any way
-cap a bit sticky when wet
Collector
Mike Sheldrake
Number
MS1
Other Collectors
Determined by
Mike Sheldrake and M. Berbee
Host Substratum
soil
Notes
Spores with warts over 1 um tall. Spore print is off white.
Habitat
In the dirt next to a rotting log, underneath a Douglas Fir.
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: 2 numerous or trooping, but not in clumps
Color of top surface: 3 pale yellow or cream
Secondary color top surface: 6 pink or salmon
Spore print color: 1 white
Hymenium color when young: 1 white
Hymenium color when mature: 1 white
Spore length: 11
Spore width: 8.5
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 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 flesh color: 1 white
Flesh toughness: 2 easy to break or tear, but not fragile
Flesh fracture: 4 brittle or crumbly
Cap margin surface: 2 smooth
Cap edge: 1 smooth
Stipe shape: 3 equal
Stipe position: 1 central
Stipe flesh hardness: 2 firm, fleshy
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 primary color: 1 white
Stipe surface texture: 8 fibrilose
Stipe width: 10
Stipe length: 35
Gill attachment: 1 adnate
Gills waxy feel: No
Ring type: 5 none
Partial veil type: 5 none
Ring location on stalk: 5 none
Ring number: 3 none
Latex color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Latex stain color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Reaction Melzer's color: 13 blue
Spore shape: 3 elliptical
Spore ornamentation: 2 rough
cystidia: present
clamp connections: present
