Large fruiting in Atlantic white cedar swamp. Two densely wooded locations about an eight of a mile apart. Many dozen individuals in all stages of growth. Very few macro fungi present besides this species.

Growing by itself from moss-covered compacted soil in open mixed oak woodland edge. Golden rhizomorphs attached to host Elaphomyces species (roughly 6 cm depth). Nearby trees Northern Red Oak, Eastern Red Cedar, Black Oak, Roughleaf dogwood, and distant Chinkapin Oak. Spore-bearing surface present.

137

Growing on the outer surfaces of fallen Northern Red Oak tree in large oak woodland draw. Bark appears to be sluffed off where fungal fruiting bodies are present. Both KOH and Ammonia darkening surfaces where applied.

145

Two separate specimens growing about 12 ft up on large Black Walnut tree on north-facing oak woodland slope near woodland edge.

Hymenium iridescent. Orange-brown. Pores small. Bruises dark brown.

Smell: Strong earthy and sweet.
Taste: Faintly bitter.

Spore print: pale yellow.

KOH: Instantly black on all surfaces.
Ammonia: Instantly reddish brown on fresh hymenium and black on other surfaces.

Microscopy: Spores and hyphal tissues dextrinoid in KOH.
Spores appear to be somewhat red blood cell-shaped, some more sickled then others (see 3rd microscopy photo).

148

Clitocybe nuda or similar?

-Growing among woodland duff on northwest-facing slope under small American Hophornbeam grove in mixed oak woodland.

-Clitocyboid, slightly bulbous at base. Rhizomorphs present. Inrolled margin. Flat on top by slightly concave. Fleshy cap. Close gills. Stipe potentially hollow or with center pith. Iridescent fibers running down stipe. Similar lilac coloring throughout entire specimen.

-Taste: Indistinct
-Smell: Indistinct
-KOH: Indistinct initially to slightly yellow on pileipellis and stipe. After time dissolving lilac coloring and mushroom becoming semitransparent.

155

Growing clustered on rotting hardwood log on well-shaded, north facing, mixed oak/hickory woodland slope.

Stipe elastic and hallow. Stipe increasing thickness at base. Clustering. Shallow gills. Cap surface brown-orange.

Smell: stipe phenolic; cap nutty
Taste: phenolic, faint
KOH: olive-gray on stipe and pileipellis, and honey colored on hymenium. (Later turning red on pileipellis)

169

-Growing gregariously (locally abundant) among woodland duff in well shaded oak woodland edge with dense understory of brush (Rough Leaf Dogwood, and Autumn Olive).

-All exterior flesh, but hymenium, bruising yellow where handled. Bruises later turning dark brown, especially on stipe.

-Gills free from stipe, crowded, and pink when young, turning dark brown at maturity.

-Stipe collapsible, either hollow or with central pith.

Taste: Not distinctive
Smell: Mild and unexplainable.

250

-Growing solitarily on Hackberry in low Southwest-facing slope in mixed oak/hickory woodland near creek.

• Cap faded pink, wrinkled with a vein-like pattern.
• Lamellae pale pink with frequent partial gills.
• Stipe with white basal mycelium.

-Additional Info

• Smell: pleasant, fragrant
• Taste: slight acrid sensation
• KOH orange on pileipellis and hymenium.

393

-Growing on large brown-rot hardwood log in low shady, riparian woodland area.

• Cap with raised wrinkled texture on pileipellis.
• Lamellae pinkish and free from stipe.
• Stipe slightly gray-blue at apex.

440

-Growing terrestrially, scattered in mixed oak/hickory woodland.
-Nearby Trees: Chinkapin Oak, Northern Red Oak, Bitternut Hickory, American Hophornbeam and Shagbark Hickory.

• Caps brownish-gray with splitting fiber texture more evident near the margins.
• Lamellae adnexed with decurrent tooth, dull white with dark specks on the faces.
• Stipe white and slightly enlarging near base.

Additional Details

• Smell: not distinctive
• Taste: bitter
• Spore Print: white
• Microscopy: mounted in KOH

Spores:
(4.8)5.1-5.7(5.8)x(3.6)3.9-4.4(4.5)um
Q=(1.2)1.24-1.4 ; N= 30
Me=5.4x4.1um ; Qe=1.3
Broadly elliptical to nearly round, minutely spiny/ punctuate-roughened, amyloid, hyaline in KOH.
Print: White.
Basida: clavate 4 sterigmate.
Cystidia: not found
Pileipellis: a mess of hyphae that gathers in towers, creating the caps tomentose texture.
Clamp connections: Abundant and on all parts of mushroom.
Odor and taste: odor non distinctive, taste was bitter/slight peppery
Habitat: Growing off submerged pine cone( suspected lodgepole pine )
It was one of the most ubundant mushrooms in the area at the time.