Universal veil tissue comes off easy and has texture of mashed potatoes. Gill attachment varies a ton - sometimes distinctly free, sometimes attached broadly and even some area where a few gills “step out of line” from the other gills and are almost decurrent (photos 5,9, and 13 which are all from separate fruiting bodies). Almost all the fruiting bodies had spots of orange color towards the base. Spores inamyloid.
Spores: 9.7 - 12.0 x 8.4 - 10.4 µm
Mean: 10.7 x 9.2 µm
Q: 1.16
F000068
with manzanita
Chamise and Arctostaphylos serpentine chaparral
Dark brown to purple cap,
Creamy gills,
White stipe,
Very spicy,
Yellow UV,
Indistinct odor,
Growing trailside,
Near sitka spruce/redwood
Fairly common growing in cypress duff.
Growing in cypress duff.
Taste very almondy - started off pleasant, became very overpowering and bitter. Nice yellow cap (very young). Gills hadn’t been exposed yet. I found no others growing nearby.
Oak pastureland on side of rural private ranch driveway. Indistinct smell, 2-8cm caps in this photo. Growing in small clusters. Please confirm ID since im inexperienced.