EXTREMELY viscous, goop dripping like snot for hours and even a day later. 1/14/24-26
I am not entirely sure about this ID. I am trying to decide between this Clitopilus and the Clitocybe rivulosa. I was able to get a spore print, but it was not a lot. To me it looked white and not flesh colored, but because of the amount of spore deposit, I could have missed the color. The spore shape seems more like the description of the Clitopilus, which is why I am initially placing it here.
Found in the duff in a spruce cedar forest.
Cap was a pale gray and 2.5 cm. Growing solitary but close by each other, scattered.
Scattered / gregarious, growing terrestrially in well fertilized lawn.
Odor and taste not recorded.
99.85% match to Entoloma sp. 2 JL-2020 by MycoQuebec. Other sequences only 97.32% close
Basidiospores broadly limoniform 8-11 X 6-7.5, cheilocystidia utriform to lageniform ~ 20 - 35.
Mild aroma, under pine/mountain hemlock
Mild aroma, unremarkable but unmistakable for a “Gymnomyces” type truffle. Under fir and mountain hemlock.
Strong aroma of brown sugar, delicious (but didn’t eat it)
Found by truffle dog Rye, one properly hypogeous with no stipe seen but there may have been a rudimentary one that was damaged during the dig. Other one was nearby and erumpent, but still found by Rye and shared the same aroma, so I am guessing they are the same species. I have collected them and kept them separate in case they are different.
Aroma pleasant, difficult to describe, somewhat fruity/fermented but not in an overpowering way.
Found by truffle dog Rye next to the parking area of our campsite, under ponderosa and aspen. Mild, sweet, slightly fruity/citrusy aroma.
Fresh morels, almost certainly cultivated and imported from China, $20/lb at “Chinatown Supermarket of Manhattan.” Delicious! Better than the dried imported variety I think. Saved and dried one for sequencing.
Found two, far apart but similar spores and different spores from a third. Growing with Hudsonia tomentosa and Cladonia lichens on coastal sand dunes. The large one 2-3 inches wide.
Maple oak. Mealy odor. Ave. spore size 6.5 x 5.5 microns.
Gregarious, shallow. Fruity aroma.
With oaks
Sweet Tuber aroma
With ponderosa pine and tanoak
Oak and ponderosa pine, gregarious and growing roadside