This mushroom has a red cap with a little orange/yellow mixed in; its gills, spore print, and stalk are creamy white. These colors do not change over time. Gills are mostly adnate to decurrent to stalk. The stalk is relatively long, without rings and fragile, and it exudes no latex when broken. It tastes peppery/ acrid.
The spores are oval, white and with warts on the surface. Besides, there are abundant of cystidia within the gills.
Collector
Andy Tso
Number
AT2
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
7 red
Secondary color top surface
Cap color with age
7 red
Cap stain color
Cap width
38
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
No
Cap flesh color
1 white
Cap flesh stain color
Flesh hardness
1 soft-spongy, including gelatinous
Flesh toughness
1 fragile - difficult to handle without damage
Flesh fracture
4 brittle or crumbly
Cap cross section
3 incurved
Cap margin surface
Cap edge
1 smooth
Stipe shape
2 clavate
Stipe core
1 solid
Stipe position
1 central
Stipe flesh hardness
1 soft-spongy, including gelatinous
Stipe flesh toughness
1 fragile - difficult to handle without damage
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
10 smooth
Stipe width
15
Stipe length
60
Gill attachment
1 adnate
Gill collarium
No
Gill sawtooth edge
No
Hymenium color when young
1 white
Hymenium color when mature
1 white
Hymenium stain color
Gills break from cap
No
Gills deliquescent
No
Gills mottled face
No
Gills secede from stalk
No
Gills waxy feel
No
Gills anastomosing
No
Gills forked
No
Ring type
5 none
Partial veil type
5 none
Ring location on stalk
5 none
Ring number
Ring color
Volva type
6 none
Volva color
Habit
1 solitary or scattered
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
Reaction ammonia color
Reaction ferrous sulphate color
Reaction Melzer's color
Reaction potassium
Spore shape
3 elliptical
Spore ornamentation
2 rough
Spore length
7.5 - 10.0
Spore width
7.0 - 8.75
phylum
Basidiomycota
material collected
gilled mushroom
trama type
cap cuticle type
clamp connections
cystidia
cylindrical
morphology summary
Notes
The mushroom grows in solitary. It is not very common to see any similar species in this area. Since both of my collections were in mature stage, it is not easy to tell the specific characters shown in different ages.