When: 2009-12-01
Collection location: Tomales Bay State Park, Marin Co., California, USA [Click for map]
Notes:
These were growing near a Madrone and Bishop pine. Caps up to 4.7cm across.
Not viscid.
KOH reactions; Everything turned a basic brown.
Spores were approx. 8.0-9.0 X 5.0-5.5 microns, slightly rough.
The rusty brown spores seemed to turn violet in KOH.
They seemed to have a slight, rather pleasant odor but as usual, I couldn’t put a name to it.
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| Doubtful | -1.0 | 6.15 | 1 | (Ronpast) | |||||
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| As If! | -3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
1.06 | 35.22% | |||||||
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| I’d Call It That | 3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 6.15 | 1 | (Ronpast) | |||||
| Could Be | 1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| 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) |
1.72 | 57.34% | |||||||
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Ron, other than this being a Sericeocybe, I can’t say much more. I have around 250 collections so far this Fall and I do not recall having seen one just like this one… The veil and gill color is interesting. The spores turned violet – how? Under the microscope or with plain eye? I doubt that to be – they probably just became darker.
D.
they turned a light violet, darker in mass. I saved the print and maybe will be able to photograph it when I get some time. It was curious.