Orange to brownish colored caps with s slight convex in the center, fresh specimens are moist and produce a viscous fluid called latex from the gills. The stalk is quite long and also orange-colored, and the spores produced are elliptical with amyloid ridges and warts.
Collector
Hau-Li Fan
Number
18
Other Collectors
Aidan Beresford, Nick Zapantis, Mark Wen
Determined by
Hau-Li Fan
Host Substratum
grown in the soil, near some Douglas Fir trees.
Notes
Growing on the side of a walking/biking trail in the soil near some giant leaves. Growing in a group of 5 individual mushrooms of the same species and of different sizes.
Habitat
Grow in the soil near trees, commonly found in coastal forests in North America
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: 5 orange
Secondary color top surface: 10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Spore print color: 1 white
Hymenium color when young: 1 white
Hymenium color when mature: 4 yellow/gold
Spore length: 7
Spore width: 6
Smell: 2 mild/none
Taste: 2 bitter
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: 10 rust brown (reddish brown)
Cap stain color: 2 light gray
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: No
Cap hygrophanous: Yes
Cap flesh color: 5 orange
Cap flesh stain color: 1 white
Flesh toughness: 1 fragile - difficult to handle without damage
Flesh fracture: 2 irregular tear
Cap cross section: 3 incurved
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 flesh fracture: 3 fibrous-tears easier in one direction
Stipe flesh color: 3 pale yellow or cream
Stipe flesh stain color: 1 white
Stipe primary color: 3 pale yellow or cream
Stipe secondary color: 5 orange
Stipe stain color: 1 white
Stipe surface texture: 10 smooth
Stipe width: 10
Stipe length: 50
Gill attachment: 3 decurrent
Gill collarium: No
Gill sawtooth edge: No
Hymenium stain color: 1 white
Gills break from cap: No
Gills deliquescent: No
Gills mottled face: No
Gills secede from stalk: Yes
Gills waxy feel: Yes
Gills anastomosing: No
Gills forked: No
Ring type: 5 none
Partial veil type: 5 none
Ring location on stalk: 5 none
Ring number: 3 none
Ring color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Volva type: 6 none
Volva color: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Latex color: 1 white
Latex stain color: 2 light gray
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: 15 black or dark gray
Reaction potassium: 17 none - no stains or not applicable
Spore shape: 3 elliptical
Spore ornamentation: amyloid ridges and warts
cystidia: present
clamp connections: none present
cap cuticle type: NA
trama type: NA
