-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
Cap shape when mature
3 convex to plane
Cap shape in center
3 depressed
Cap shape from above
1 circular-even if wavy
color of top surface
3 pale yellow or cream
Secondary color top surface
6 pink or salmon
Cap color with age
Cap stain color
Cap width
6 cm
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
Cap flesh color
1 white
Cap flesh stain color
Flesh hardness
2 firm, fleshy
Flesh toughness
2 easy to break or tear, but not fragile
Flesh fracture
4 brittle or crumbly
Cap cross section
Cap margin surface
2 smooth
Cap edge
1 smooth
Stipe shape
3 equal
Stipe core
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 flesh stain color
Stipe primary color
1 white
Stipe secondary color
Stipe stain color
Stipe surface texture
8 fibrilose
Stipe width
10 mm
Stipe length
35 mm
Gill attachment
1 adnate
Gill collarium
Gill sawtooth edge
Hymenium color when young
1 white
Hymenium color when mature
1 white
Hymenium stain color
Gills break from cap
Gills deliquescent
Gills mottled face
Gills secede from stalk
Gills waxy feel
No
Gills anastomosing
Gills forked
Ring type
5 none
Partial veil type
5 none
Ring location on stalk
5 none
Ring number
3 none
Ring color
Volva type
Volva color
Habit
2 numerous or trooping, but not in clumps
Taste
1 acrid/peppery
Smell
2 mild/none
Spore print color
1 white
Latex color
17 none - no stains or not applicable
Latex stain color
17 none - no stains or not applicable
Reaction ammonia color
Reaction ferrous sulphate color
Reaction Melzer's color
13 blue
Reaction potassium
Spore shape
3 elliptical
Spore ornamentation
2 rough
Spore length
11
Spore width
8.5
phylum
Basidiomycota
material collected
gilled mushroom
trama type
cap cuticle type
clamp connections
present
cystidia
present
morphology summary
Notes
Spores with warts over 1 um tall. Spore print is off white.