Photo 8971277, (c) Django Grootmyers, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), uploaded by Django Grootmyers

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heelsplitter

Date

May 24, 2016

Description

Single basidiocarp growing on a hardwood log in a floodplain near Platanus occidentalis, Populus deltoides, Asimina triloba, Acer negundo, Aesculus flava and Ulmus sp. Cap changing from dark brown when fresh to bluish gray; 6.1 cm wide. Basidiocarp 5.3 cm tall. Stem and gills bruising slowly blue. Young gills white before changing to pink. Pileipellis a cutis with clamp connections between the hyphae. Pleurocystidia strongly hooked. This seemed unusually robust for P. americanus to me but it seems like a decent match microscopically.

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