wood: growing on fallen, wet, mossy western hemlock or alder log (more likely w. hemlock)
Notes
common name: lemon-yellow Pholiota. member of the aurivella group. 90% in the PNW are limonella and most of the rest aurivella. aroma of cap is a distinctly sweet almond extract/benzaldehyde when fresh and placed close to nose. cap extremely viscid/slimy when fresh (collected after a week of rainy weather)
Habitat
Cespitose clumps growing on steep hill, by running stream. growing near "Tiarela trifoliata" plant, in the shade of western hemlocks.
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: 3 compact clumps
Color of top surface: 4 yellow/gold
Secondary color top surface: 8 tan - light brown
Spore print color: 10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Hymenium color when young: 3 pale yellow or cream
Hymenium color when mature: 10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Spore length: 7
Spore width: 5
Smell: 6 other
Taste: 3 mild/none
Flesh hardness: 1 soft-spongy, including gelatinous
Cap shape when mature: 3 convex to plane
Cap shape in center: 2 even or flat
Cap shape from above: 1 circular-even if wavy
Cap color with age: 4 yellow/gold
Cap width: 50
Cap surface texture: 2 smooth
Cap stickiness: 3 sticky or slimy when wet
Cap has concentric zones of color: No
Cap stalk easily part: Yes
Cap hygrophanous: No
Cap flesh color: 3 pale yellow or cream
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 core: 1 solid
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: 3 fibrous-tears easier in one direction
Stipe flesh color: 3 pale yellow or cream
Stipe primary color: 3 pale yellow or cream
Stipe secondary color: 10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Stipe surface texture: 7 other scales
Stipe width: 10
Stipe length: 85
Gill attachment: 6 notched
Gill sawtooth edge: No
Gills break from cap: No
Gills deliquescent: No
Gills mottled face: No
Gills waxy feel: No
Gills anastomosing: No
Gills forked: No
Ring type: 5 none
Partial veil type: 2 fibrilose - hairy
Ring location on stalk: 1 upper stalk
Ring number: 1 single
Ring color: 9 brown- use when other browns do not fit
Volva type: 6 none
Spore shape: 3 elliptical
Spore ornamentation: 1 smooth
clamp connections: present
trama type: interwoven
