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Phiolota?

Photo by JC_Forester
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Field Notes

Description:

Cap; reddish orange, sticky, slimy and glabrous, slightly scaly - 6.5 cm. Stipe; light orange, fibrillose to reticulate - 12 cm. Gills; adnexed or adnate, whitish grey and mottled, exuding black liquid. Lamellae in tiers of 3. Spore print - Dark Brown. Growing in a hollow of a coniferous tree.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
JC_Forester
Thanks gully. I have never seen this Pholiota before. The stipe also had a hollow pith.

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PublishedJune 15, 2013

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