When: 2007-10-02
Collection location: Madison Heights, Pasadena, Los Angeles Co., California, USA [Click for map]
Who: Jason Hollinger (pellaea)
No herbarium specimen

Species Lists:
Mushrooms of Madison Heights (36)

Notes: GEN: med-large mushroom, in dirt at base of camphor tree, several loosely grouped

ST: 30×25mm, tapering strongly to tip, solid, firm, obvious sheath-like ring at top opening both above and below

CAP: 70mm wide, convex to plane, smooth whitish almost shiny, lots of dirt on cap, barely raised above ground, marg curled under, K-

FLESH: white, firm, 15-20mm thick(!), staining weakly rufescent, mild pleaseant fungal flavor

GILL: pink to brown, free, etc.

SPORE: print brown (scanty), ellip, brownish, smooth, one big bubble, 6.6-7.6×4.3-5.3um

Sigh, seems I’ve got another wrong. I detect no odor, and since Arora and rogersmushrooms.com claim A. bitorquis can stain faintly pink or reddish, I went with that. However, the community consensus seems to go with “pink means A. bernardii”. So be it. Too bad I don’t have a dehydrator to keep these for later.

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Observation created: Sun Oct 14 13:06:40 -0700 2007
Last modified: Sun Oct 14 21:19:41 -0700 2007
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