fungizen's Identifications

287

Growing terrestrially scattered in grass adjacent to woodland edge. In close proximity to Cottonwood, red oak, ash, Elm, and white oak.

• Gills: free, cream colored, close to sub-distant spacing, margin entire.
• Cap : convex to campanulate to slightly umbonate. 4-4.5 cm. Margin with abundant and fragile veil remnants. Color white to cream.
• Stem: 5-6 cm. Color white to cream to pale yellow. Annular zone with abundant and fragile veil remnants.
• Smell: indistinct.
• Taste: mushroomy, slightly unpleasant.
• KOH: slightly darkening all surfaces
• Ammonia: slightly darkening all surfaces.
• Spore Print: white.

In flowerbed with irises, but near a very large pin oak. Smells mildly cheesy-nutty-mushroomy.

Spores were photographed under a microscope by Chance Brueggeman (cbrueg). He observed mainly 4 spores per asci, some less, and very few with 5. He observed it was dextrinoid in Melzer's Reagent.