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Associated observations

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What

Copper Brittlegill (Russula decolorans)

Observer

ethancrenson

Date

September 4, 2020 03:45 PM EDT

Description

Orange cap, white stipe, cuticle peels almost none at all–1/4 at best. Smells a bit like bread. Gills cream colored. Taste at first a bit like rubber, then later slightly acrid. Spore print ochre orange. Spores 8-12 x 7-9µm, with isolated warts reaching 1 - 1.25µm in height, almost no connectives. Gills graying where damaged, stipe graying slightly with age and damage. The smaller specimen was in the vicinity (not growing with the large one) and is more immediately acrid after the initial rubbery taste.

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