Chrysocystidia can be seen after you stain the slide with KOH; They turn bright yellow.
Habitat
Up on the top of a slope, growing on damp rotting wood. The area was shaded by hemlock trees.
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: 13 blue
Secondary color top surface: 12 greenish
Spore print color: 15 black or dark gray
Hymenium color when young: 2 light gray
Hymenium color when mature: 8 tan - light brown
Spore length: 11.73
Spore width: 6.9
Smell: 2 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 color with age: 13 blue
Cap width: 28
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: Yes
Cap flesh color: 13 blue
Flesh toughness: 2 easy to break or tear, but not fragile
Flesh fracture: 3 fibrous-tears easier in one direction
Cap margin surface: 2 smooth
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 width: 10
Gill attachment: 4 subdecurrent
Gills break from cap: No
Gills deliquescent: No
Gills waxy feel: No
Gills anastomosing: No
Gills forked: No
Partial veil type: 1 cobwebby
Ring location on stalk: 1 upper stalk
Ring number: 1 single
Ring color: 1 white
Volva color: 1 white
Spore shape: 3 elliptical
Spore ornamentation: 1 smooth
cystidia: chrysocystidia
cap cuticle type: filamentous
