Sequenced.
Sample: S-176-1
Collectors: NW, CS
Microscopy: NW
Notes: Purple-blue primordia, indication of partial veil. Cap waxy. Specimen very dehydrated and immature, few useful microscopic features found. No distinctive smell. Spores brown, smooth and ovate.
Sequenced.
Sample: S-8-3
Collectors: HS, RC
Microscopy: NW
Notes: Sweet odor. Dark purple cap with pale fibrils at margins. Spores brown, smooth, ellipsoid. No cystidia.
ID tentative. Small Cortinarius growing by a creek (in moss)
COLLECTION # 73471
DATE: 18 OCT 2023
LOCATION: Paradise Road, Mt Rainier National Park, Pierce County, WA, USA
LAT = 46.7345893997
LON = -121.8311539997
SUBSTRATE: Dense Humus Soil, Needle Duff, Moss
FLORA:
Conifer: Douglas Fir, White Fir, Western Hemlock & Western Red Cedar
Deciduous: Wild Blueberry, Red Huckleberry, Vine Maple
Evergreen: Sword Fern, Deer Fern, Rattlesnake Tongue Plantain
AMBIENT TEMP: 65 Degrees F
SOIL TEMP: 52 Degrees F
ECOSYSTEM: Old-Growth Conifer, Mixed Forest, Nisqually River within 100 meters
ELEVATION: 2612 Ft/ 796 Meters
Mixed woods of Abies balsamea, Betula papyrifera, Pinus strobus, Thuja occidentalis, and Acer rubrum. Spore print tan-brown. Odour indistinct, perhaps most similar to raw potato.
Olive tone underside which doesn't come across well in photos.
Sequenced.
Sample: S-11-1
Collectors: NW, CS
Microscopy: HS
Notes: Sweet odor. KOH: slow, dark red on cap, dingy olive on stipe. Spores dark, subovoid, minutely roughened.