when very young, but soon pale orange and eventually colored more or less like the cap; not bruising or staining. stem: - cm long; up to cm thick; becoming hollow; more or less equal; dry; without potholes; colored like the cap, but paler. flesh: whitish to pinkish or orangish; not changing when sliced...
beginning to run down the stem; very distant (about - mm apart at the margin); yellowish; stained salmon pink (sometimes slowly) by the milk. stem: - cm long; - cm thick; equal or tapered to base; smooth; colored like the cap or paler; dry; hollowing. flesh: soft; whitish; staining salmon pink when sliced...
short-gills frequent; separable from the cap as a layer; pale yellow. in dried specimens the gills turn pale purplish brown to pinkish. stem: – cm long; – cm thick; stout; swollen in the middle; dry; bald; white; with prominent and copious white basal mycelium . flesh: white; thick; hard; not changing when sliced...
summer and fall across northern and montane north america. on casual observation, one is likely to mistake it for a lactarius --but it does not produce milk when sliced. in fact, close examination reveals several things that are not at all lactarius-like: the gills separate from the cap in a layer (...
scales. gills: free from the stem; close; whitish at first, becoming pink; short-gills frequent; with dark brown or nearly black edges from the margin to the stem. stem: - cm long; up to cm thick; with a slightly swollen base; dark brown; longitudinally fibrillose. flesh: whitish; unchanging when sliced...
about one-third of the way to the center. gills: attached to the stem or nearly free from it at maturity; forking occasionally; close; creamy. stem: - cm long; up to cm thick; dry; smooth; white; discoloring a little brownish with age or on handling. flesh: white; brittle; thick; not changing when sliced...
stem; close; short-gills frequent; brownish pink at maturity. stem: – cm long; – mm thick; fragile; more or less equal, above a very slight basal bulb; dry; bald; white; without a ring ; the base encased in a small, white, flaring volva that discolors brownish. flesh: thin; white; not changing when sliced...
whitish to brownish partial veil . stem: – cm long; – cm thick; more or less equal above a slightly to moderately swollen base; with a skirtlike, whitish to brownish ring ; whitish; bruising reddish to pinkish brown; bald or slightly fibrillose. flesh: white; changing to reddish or brownish red when sliced...
brown; when in the button stage covered with a whitish partial veil . stem: – cm long; – cm thick; equal above a tapered base; more or less bald; with a fragile, collapsing, white ring ; whitish, discoloring a little brownish but not truly bruising; basal mycelium white. flesh: white; unchanging when sliced...
east of the rocky mountains, and have you seen a woodland agaricus with a scaly to fibrillose brown cap and flesh that stains red when bruised or sliced?...