A great many growing beneath spruce. Largest cap diameter ~30mm; longest stem ~40mm. Wet. Collected for Mycoblitz.
on top of mossy wood. maple, beech, birch Hardwoods dominant.
13-08-22/11 Gregarious as two densely packed groups of 30-50 basidiomata in leaf litter in a mature forest of Acer saccharum, Betula papyrifera and Fagus grandifolia
Voucher specimen in the herbaium of the New Brunswick Museum (NBM)
Basidiomata forming a dense mass of erect and unbranched thalli, very fragile, glabrous, dry, light brown (HSV25:20:90), 90-130 x 3-6 mm
Stipe lacking
Flesh concolorous with the surface tissues in the cortex and white at the centre, lacking a distinctive odour and taste.
Basidiospores white in spore print, obovate to phasaeoliform in profile, smooth, neither amyloid nor dextrinoid, 5.1-7.8 x 3.5-4.2 µm, Q = 1.37-2.09 (average[30]: 6.6±0.6 x 3.7±0.2 µm, Q = 1.77±0.15)
Basidia clavate, 4-spored, without a basal clamp connection, about 48-50 x 7.3-8.8 µm, Q = 4.9-6.7
Clamp connections lacking throughout
Photos:
on ground under white spruce
Tiny white mushrooms, dried to tan, On ground under white spruce.
White cap, guesstimate 4-6 cm in width. Decurrent gills are beige to tan. Stem is short and thick.
recently mowed, a large flush of puffballs. Linden and elm in the area.
damaged by mower. On grass near Pinus nigra.
under linden, Red oak, with white spruce close by. Note pattern on stipe
at base of white spruce in unmowed grass, Additional specimens shown
on hardwood log, cap 10 cm across, and fully hydrated in heavy rain, 8.5 cm when fully dried. Stem short and eccentric. Gills white; and with some slug-grazing, I am uncertain if they are decurrent or not. I added pictures of the dry mushroom.
Cap, about 3 cm, has a faint pink tinge on one side of upper cap, white gills close, white stem. Stem disintegrated when collected.
With heavy rain, everything is soaked. Under hardwoods.
inside old stump, crowded white gills, oblong cap about 4-5 cm long at most. White stem, Smaller round cap has a white edge, gills and stem
Tiny! Largest ~3mm across. On dead Alnus incana in wet woods. Collected.
Found on beech stump
excessive rank odor of radish or perhaps parsley. gills not decurrent . Cluster at base of white birch.
scent of coconut, also producing milk. urban yard, Red oak, Linden, maples. on grass
several specimens on grass , near white spruce
caps 1.5 to 2 cm with sharp umbo, lavender stipe. All photos lack good focus, sorry!
caps pretty much welded together, decurrent gills, specimens emerging through spruce cones in a white spruce hedge.