widely distributed in eastern north america from kansas to the east coast, but especially common in the south and in the mississippi and ohio watersheds (the northern edge of its range appears to be the southern great lakes). cap: - cm high; - cm wide; variable in shape but usually more or less round; not...
the flesh is reminiscent of the flesh in fistulina hepatica ). odor and taste : odor not distinctive; taste tangy or sour. chemical reactions : flesh and cap surface red to maroon, then quickly black with koh. spore print : not documented; probably yellowish to brownish. microscopic features : spores...
soft; white or whitish, sometimes discoloring a little yellowish or brownish with age. gills: beginning to run down the stem; very crowded; forking frequently; pale cream. stem: - cm long; - cm thick; white; tapering to base; bald; without potholes; solid. flesh: white; thick; hard; unchanging when sliced...
. odor and taste : odor not distinctive, or somewhat fragrant; taste not distinctive. spore print : white. microscopic features : spores - x - μ; subcylindric; smooth; thin-walled; hyaline in koh; inamyloid. basidia -spored. hymenial cystidia basidiole-like to hypha-like. pileipellis a cutis. hyphal...
tapering a little to apex; brown to grayish brown and finely velvety to hairy throughout development; sometimes staining yellow to rusty orange where handled; with a long, tapered tap root extending up to cm underground; the tap root sometimes bruising rusty brown. flesh: whitish; unchanging when sliced...
elaborately) center, but occasionally smooth. gills: free from the stem; close; short-gills frequent; whitish at first, becoming pinkish. stem: - cm long; - mm thick; equal; fragile; bald or silky; whitish, becoming gray to brownish from the base upward. flesh: insubstantial; whitish; unchanging when sliced...
faces. stem : – cm long; – mm thick; equal above a slightly swollen base; bald or very finely fibrillose in places; with a high, tight ring that features a lined upper edge and which catches grayish-purplish spore dust in mature specimens; whitish; basal mycelium white. flesh: white; unchanging when sliced...
without a pink stage); when in the button stage covered with a thin, white partial veil . stem: – cm long; – cm thick; equal or slightly swollen toward the base, which is often deeply sunken in the substrate; scurfy below the ring; with a thick white ring ; brownish. flesh: white; unchanging when sliced...
with a whitish partial veil when in the button stage. stem: – cm long; – cm thick; equal above a slightly swollen base; fibrillose to somewhat shaggy; with a thick, rubbery, white to yellowish ring ; whitish; bruising slightly reddish brown; basal mycelium white. flesh: white; firm; unchanging when sliced...