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When: 2007-09-14
Collection location:
Lake Owen, Albany Co., Wyoming, USA [Click for map]
Who:
Barry Hammel (bhammel)
No herbarium specimen
Notes: Quite common in Lodgepole pine forest at edge of a Quaking aspen grove. This mushroom with strikingly pink colored gills has a sort of dry and more or less tasteless flesh, that becomes belatedly and mildly peppery. I thought it might be a Lactarius but couldn’t get any milk (nor spore print) out of the rather old, mature specimens I found.
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Created: 2007-09-18 15:31:28
By: Douglas Smith (douglas)
Summary: Could also be Russula, maybe?
Russula brevipes can get pretty brown when old. Also isn’t there some Hygrophorus which can have this shape (or are wires getting crossed in my mind)? But it does look kinda Lactarius like.
Are you getting spore prints? And what are you using to id? Mushroom Expert seems to be better for east coast, and Arora’s Mushrooms Demystified will be better for west coast. What is best of rocky mountain region?
Created: 2007-09-18 15:25:53
By: Nathan Wilson (nathan)
Summary: Looks like a Lactarius sp. to me.
However, I wouldn’t hazard a guess to species without some younger specimens.
Observation created: Mon Sep 17 22:57:14 -0700 2007
Last modified: Tue Sep 18 09:20:57 -0700 2007
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