. odor and taste : not distinctive. chemical reactions : koh on cap surface slowly dark red. spore print : brown. microscopic features : spores – x – μm; broadly ellipsoid; finely roughened, but often appearing more or less smooth; hyaline in koh ; faintly to moderately dextrinoid . basidia -sterigmate...
lined. gills: running slightly down the stem; distant or nearly so; creamy orangish; short-gills frequent; often with cross-veins by maturity. stem: - cm long; - cm thick; fairly equal; bald; dry; creamy orangish to whitish; white at the base. flesh: whitish; unchanging when sliced. odor and taste :...
changing when sliced. odor and taste : not distinctive. chemical reactions : koh pink on cap surface. spore print : white. microscopic features : spores - x - μ; limoniform to sublacrymoid; smooth; hyaline in koh; not cyanophilic; inamyloid. cheilocystidia cylindric to subfusiform, with subcapitate...
broadly convex, becoming flat or shallowly depressed; dry; fairly smooth; dull smoky brown or paler (occasionally nearly whitish); the margin even. gills: attached to the stem or beginning to run down it; close or crowded; white, becoming pale brownish with age; when fresh staining pink to reddish when sliced...
zoned, or zoned faintly toward the margin; the margin not lined. gills: broadly attached to the stem or beginning to run down it; close; short-gills frequent; pale orange. stem: – cm long; – cm thick; slightly tapered to the base; without potholes; bald; pale orange; basal mycelium white. flesh: whitish...
changing when sliced. odor and taste : odor not distinctive; taste mild. chemical reactions : koh on cap surface orange. iron salts on flesh and stem surface slowly pink. spore print : creamy to pale yellow. microscopic features : spores - x - μ; with isolated warts up to μ high; connectors scattered...
likely to mistake amanita smithiana for a matsutake, but may still find it difficult to identify with precision, since it belongs to section lepidella of amanita, a notoriously difficult identification area. fortunately, "lepidellas" are not as abundant in the pacific northwest as they are in the southeastern...
first, becoming olive yellow; bruising promptly blue; with - circular to angular pores per mm; tubes shallow, to mm deep; long remaining adnate. stem: - cm long; - cm thick; more or less equal; bright yellow at the apex; yellowish to brownish overall, with a persistently carmine red base; bald; dry; not...
paler; by maturity with frequent cross-veins, or becoming elaborately veined. stem: - cm long and - cm thick; fairly stocky; equal; more or less bald; pale yellow; discoloring and bruising slowly orangish brown, especially near the base; fleshy. flesh: whitish; thick; stringy; water-logged when wet; not...
changing when sliced; fairly brittle. odor and taste : odor fragrant or not distinctive. taste mild or slightly bitterish. chemical reactions : koh on cap surface negative. spore print : pinkish (sometimes nearly white). microscopic details : spores – x – μm; ellipsoid; finely warted; hyaline in koh...