MO#: 334001 iNat#: 16731427 North American Mycoflora Project # 08116 NEARBY TREES: Conifer, Douglas, Hemlock, Silver, and a few Vine Maples SUBSTRATE: Leaf Litter, Dense Humus Soil, Needle Duff, and Moss. Soil was slightly damp. HABIT: Few (2 within 6-inch area). Found near the edge of what is normally a wetland area....lots of damp mud, but no standing water. A great deal of Vanilla Leaf plants (Achlys triphylla) exist throughout the area. ODOR: Indistinct, ostensibly Almond. TASTE: Acrid, Peppery DETAILED PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: CAP: Largest specimen is ~1.5” wide, with the smaller at ~.75” wide. Hemispheric, smooth...but with very-fine bumps over the entire cuticle; Color is predominantly tan...darker at the center & lighter towards the margin...there are numerous, irregularly placed darker tan splotches, and the cuticle cracks w/age. Flesh is white, thick, very firm, and turning very-light tan where cut or bruised. Somewhat viscid/tacky when wet. Margin is in-rolled, very finely scalloped, and irregularly crenulated, with distinct sharp edges. The Margin of the smaller specimen is very-much in-rolled, to the point that it is folded up into the gill area. GILLS: Bone-white, notched, close-to-crowded, but fairly equally spaced. Pale tan where cut or bruised. STIPE: Bone-white in the upper-third, with vertically striated or banded areas of light-to-medium tan feathering of the remainder of the surface area. It is clavate, with central attachment, slowly tapering to bottom. The surface is smooth, but has irregularly shaped undulations...mixed vertically and horizontally across the stipe. There are also numerous, irregularly shaped, shallow pits on the stipe surface. The flesh is bone-white and very-firm, with no visible color-change where cut or bruised. NOTE: The Stipe of both specimens, including the smaller one, has been invaded by some type of insect. The larger specimen has a bore-hole near the stipe bottom and about two-thirds of the interior has been eaten away, leaving “shelves” of uneaten flesh where it appears the insect used these shelves as a platform to eat from. A quarter-inch long thrip-like insect was observed exiting one of the halves of the larger specimen. SPORES: unknown at this time. MYCELIA: White, very dense, directly below the forest duff. Appears to run shallow in the packed substrate, ~ 1/16”.