Notes: This mushroom was found at the Mid Atlantic States Mycology Conference Foray in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Hi to anyone that was there!!)
Habitat: Single immature basidiome found on buried wood, appearing terrestrial, but likely on burried wood (note that the wood in the background on the picture was NOT the wood on which the specimen was found).
Width of cap: 3-4cm
Length of the stalk: 5-6cm
Cap: Hygrphanous, dried to cream/offwhite. Not viscid.
Stem: Hollow, firm.
Lamellae: Adnate
Spore print: WHITE
Spores: smooth, elliptical, approx 5×8 microns.
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| I’d Call It That | 3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Could Be | 1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Doubtful | -1.0 | 15.76 | 3 | (bloodworm,wintersbefore,T. Sage) | |||||
| Not Likely | -2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| As If! | -3.0 | 5.72 | 1 | (Alan Rockefeller) | |||||
| Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
-1.46 | -48.81% | |||||||
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| Vote | Score | Weight | Users | ||||||
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| I’d Call It That | 3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 4.91 | 1 | (bloodworm) | |||||
| Could Be | 1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Doubtful | -1.0 | 5.72 | 1 | (Alan Rockefeller) | |||||
| Not Likely | -2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| As If! | -3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
0.35 | 11.74% | |||||||
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| Vote | Score | Weight | Users | ||||||
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| I’d Call It That | 3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 5.32 | 1 | (Dave W) | |||||
| Could Be | 1.0 | 10.85 | 2 | (T. Sage,Alan Rockefeller) | |||||
| Doubtful | -1.0 | 4.91 | 1 | (bloodworm) | |||||
| Not Likely | -2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| As If! | -3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
0.75 | 25.04% | |||||||
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| Vote | Score | Weight | Users | ||||||
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| I’d Call It That | 3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Could Be | 1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Doubtful | -1.0 | 16.35 | 3 | (wintersbefore,bloodworm,Alan Rockefeller) | |||||
| Not Likely | -2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| As If! | -3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
-0.94 | -31.41% | |||||||
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| Vote | Score | Weight | Users | ||||||
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| I’d Call It That | 3.0 | 11.04 | 2 | (Dave W,wintersbefore) | |||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 10.62 | 2 | (bloodworm,Alan Rockefeller) | |||||
| Could Be | 1.0 | 5.13 | 1 | (T. Sage) | |||||
| Doubtful | -1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Not Likely | -2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| As If! | -3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
2.14 | 71.36% | |||||||
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Spores look different, no bleach odor, stem was not “fragile,” flesh is “substantial.” Margin is inrolled, the cystidia look different, but maybe all these things are variable, I’m going to get some help in the lab today and will post if I get something difinitive.
I see the genus was proposed, and this received an unfavorable vote. Check M. niveipes at Mushroom Expert… cap diameter up to 7 cm.
Definately NOT Pluteus either
look at that thing.
but the sad hard facts are there is only one immature specimen, and it has had a long day and isn’t looking so good anymore, but I think I will see if I can sequence this one.
this is going to be fun.
This thing is MEATY, I just put a dime next to it for a size reference while it is trying desperately to give me a spore print.
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Its Mycena Niveipes. Spores are amyloid, matches Hesler’s description very well. I’ll update some pictures of some microscopy that supports.
EDIT: and apparently it did smell like bleach… I would have said fabric softener, but it was bleach.