bruising reddish slowly (within 1 min).

Substrate: in soil, beside trail in embankment under Rhododendron, Hemlock and Oak.

Habitat: mixed deciduous + coniferous temperate rainforest, ~4500 ft.

Collectors: L. Cannon

Collected for the 2014 Fleshy Fungi of the Highlands Plateau course, taught by Andy Methven at the Highlands Biological Station in Highlands, North Carolina.