| Family
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Tricholomataceae |
| Accession Number
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| Genus
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Laccaria |
| Species
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cf. bicolor |
| Species Author
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Mueller |
| Date
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26/10/2002 |
| Morphological Description
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Cap: Convex, silky, smooth, regular and dry with an indentation in the center of older specimens. In mature specimens collected, light pink concentrically darkens to salmon or flesh beige in center. When fresh had a slightly translucent quality to the color but darkens and becomes buff as specimen dries. The very edge of the caps are deep purple. In younger specimens collected, the entire cap is deep, dull, violet in color.
Stem: Few stray hairs on longitudinally striate to ribbed stem. Slightly bulbous at the base but equal otherwise and is centrally attached to cap. Is terete, flexous and hollow. Color is uniform and is a light shade of lilac identical to gills when fresh. The striations darken and take on a reddish brown hue as the mushroom loses moisture. The flesh in stem fades in color as mushroom dries.
Gills: Adenate attachment, distant spacing. Are broad, unequal, waxy and of average thickness with an eroded edge. When fresh has a light, bright, pale lilac color but darkens to a dull, waxy, purple with a light dusting of white (from spores) as mushroom dries.
Flesh: Is compact and very thin in cap.
Has a mild taste and slightly fishy smell when fresh but odor becomes increasingly stronger and fish-like after it is picked. |
| Collector
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Margaret Kwok |
| Number
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MK 1 |
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Cap shape when mature |
3 convex to plane |
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Cap shape in center |
3 depressed |
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Cap shape from above |
1 circular-even if wavy |
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color of top surface |
6 pink or salmon |
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Secondary color top surface |
14 purple, violet, or lilac |
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Cap color with age |
6 pink or salmon |
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Cap stain color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
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Cap width |
0.7 - 5 cm |
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Cap surface texture |
2 smooth |
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Cap stickiness |
1 dry |
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Cap has concentric zones of color |
Yes |
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Cap stalk easily part |
No |
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Cap hygrophanous |
Yes |
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Cap flesh color |
14 purple, violet, or lilac |
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Cap flesh stain color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
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Flesh hardness |
2 firm, fleshy |
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Flesh toughness |
2 easy to break or tear, but not fragile |
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Flesh fracture |
2 irregular tear |
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Cap cross section |
4 inrolled |
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Cap margin surface |
2 smooth |
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Cap edge |
1 smooth |
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Stipe shape |
3 equal |
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Stipe core |
2 hollow |
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Stipe position |
1 central |
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Stipe flesh hardness |
2 firm, fleshy |
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Stipe flesh toughness |
2 easy to break or tear, but not fragile |
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Stipe flesh fracture |
3 fibrous-tears easier in one direction |
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Stipe flesh color |
14 purple, violet, or lilac |
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Stipe flesh stain color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
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Stipe primary color |
14 purple, violet, or lilac |
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Stipe secondary color |
6 pink or salmon |
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Stipe stain color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
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Stipe surface texture |
9 hairy |
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Stipe width |
0.3 - 0.7cm |
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Stipe length |
40 - 100 |
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Gill attachment |
1 adnate |
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Gill collarium |
No |
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Gill sawtooth edge |
No |
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Hymenium color when young |
14 purple, violet, or lilac |
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Hymenium color when mature |
14 purple, violet, or lilac |
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Hymenium stain color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
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Gills break from cap |
No |
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Gills deliquescent |
No |
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Gills mottled face |
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Gills secede from stalk |
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Gills waxy feel |
Yes |
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Gills anastomosing |
No |
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Gills forked |
Yes |
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Ring type |
5 none |
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Partial veil type |
5 none |
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Ring location on stalk |
5 none |
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Ring number |
3 none |
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Ring color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
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Volva type |
6 none |
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Volva color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
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Habit |
2 numerous or trooping, but not in clumps |
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Taste |
3 mild/none |
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Smell |
6 other |
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Spore print color |
1 white |
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Latex color |
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Latex stain color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
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Reaction ammonia color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
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Reaction ferrous sulphate color |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
| Reaction Melzer's color
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17 none - no stains or not applicable |
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Reaction potassium |
17 none - no stains or not applicable |
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Spore shape |
6 circular |
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Spore ornamentation |
2 rough |
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Spore length |
7.5 |
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Spore width |
7.5 |
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phylum |
Basidiomycota |
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material collected |
gilled mushroom |
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trama type |
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cap cuticle type |
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clamp connections |
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cystidia |
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morphology summary |
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| Notes
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The picture does not show the true color of the mushrooms. The gills and stems are in fact purple at the time of photographing. L. bicolor was the closest match to morphological descriptions found however the similarities in the description of characteris |
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