This was a very interesting find. I found this cluster of mushrooms just barely peaking out of some mossy duff under a Sitka Spruce. At first the mushroom was all white, but as soon as I started handling it, it bruised to this bright sunflower yellow. The cap, and stipe both bruised a bright yellow. As it sat around the bruising turned into an orange color.
The gills are attached, close and have a pinkish hue to them.
The young specimen was covered in a cottony cortina.
When I sliced the cap off the stipe to get a spore print, the flesh immediately turned from white to a bright yellow.
cap 4 cm wide
specimen 55mm tall
Spore print was not dense enough to determine color, but spores retrieved off a gill shows almond shaped spores 6.5x4um.
This was a very interesting find. I found this cluster of mushrooms just barely peaking out of some mossy duff under a Sitka Spruce. At first the mushroom was all white, but as soon as I started handling it, it bruised to this bright sunflower yellow. The cap, and stipe both bruised a bright yellow. As it sat around the bruising turned into an orange color.
The gills are attached, close and have a pinkish hue to them.
The young specimen was covered in a cottony cortina.
When I sliced the cap off the stipe to get a spore print, the flesh immediately turned from white to a bright yellow.
cap 4 cm wide
specimen 55mm tall
Spore print was not dense enough to determine color, but spores retrieved off a gill shows almond shaped spores 6.5x4um.
In open prairie near small regional airport, under Pinus contorta contorta
Sorry for the bad photos.. are these possibly the same?