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Observer

davidwhyte

Date

May 18, 2021 07:09 PM NZST

Description

These were growing next to beech, linden lime, and pines. They were also fruiting just north of the water tower which could have been with pinus or oak.

Cap sticky / slimy and two tone
Stem had ruff 'bits' on it
Bulb present
Aroma of radish / raphanoid
No cortina present, even on very young fb (not photographed)
Tears and 'milk' on gills
Spores not dextronoid

I still find it challenging to tell cheilocystidia apart from basidia unless they are clearly / obviously different. Some micro shots of what I think were cheilocystidia.

Keying out come to

Dominate color white/cream. Cheilocystidia with significantly swollen abrupt apex (apex diam > 1.6 middle diam).

Or

Pileus colour uniformly tan or two-tone with pale perimeter and yellow/tan centre. Cheilocystidia not significant and abruptly swollen at apex.

So going with the two tone cap, but unsure if the cheilocystidia I think I have captured are not significantly swollen

Cap color two tone and comes down to brown centre or yellow centre. I would say brown centre. Images for H. cavipes look similar, Images for H pseudofragilipes do not look as similar especially the mature samples.

Thus I would conclude H. cavipes. The only issues could be that the recorded host are Populus and Betula. Given the location in a domain planted with many exotics I couldn't rule out that one of these was within root distance. Birches were nearby but I thought two far away, don't think poplar were nearby at all.

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