bit's Identifications

Spore deposit white. Taste immediately very acrid. Cap 4.5 - 8 cm across, viscid, cuticle peels off easily, up to 100% of the cap radius. Stipe 9.5 - 12 cm long x 11 - 21 mm thick at the apex. Larger fruitbodies are very fragile. Average spore size is 8.9 x 7.6 µm, partial reticulum up to 1 µm high. Growing in deep needle duff from shore pine.

Spore deposit cream to yellow. Cap 2.9 - 3.8 cm across, viscid when wet. Gills white to cream. Stipe 3.8 - 5.5 cm long x 8 - 14 mm thick, fragile. Taste mild. Odor not distinct. Spores 7.6 - 9 x 6.6 - 7.5 µm (excluding warts), warts forming partial reticulum to 0.7 µm high. Growing in Sitka Spruce forest. Used PNW Key.

Spore deposit cream. Odor not distinct. Taste is mild. Cap 8.5 cm across, cuticle peels to 50% of radius. Gills cream. Stipe 6 cm long x 2 - 2.3 cm thick, tapering downward, pale cream, discolors yellow-brown when scraped. Flesh is firm, dense. Gill cystidia present, narrowing at apex, 75 - 100 x 10 -15 µm. Spores (6.9) 7 - 8.7 (9.3) x (5.7) 5.9 - 6.8 (6.9) µm, Q = (1.1) 1.15 - 1.37 (1.4), with warts forming a partial reticulum up to 0.45 µm high. Growing under Sitka spruce. Note - One reference stated the gills fork, another stated that they don't. I observed that they did fork.

Spore deposit white. Odor not distinct. Cap 2.2 cm across. Stipe 7.5 cm long x 2 - 4 mm thick. Cap and stipe bruise immediately bright red. Gills do not discolor when bruised. Cheilocystidia abundant. Spores dextrinoid, (7) 7.3 - 8.1 (8.4) x (4.2) 4.3 - 4.8 (5) µm, Q = 1.6 - 1.79 (1.8), N = 20, Me = 7.8 x 4.6 µm. Growing under Picea sitchensis.

Spore deposit brown. Cap 3.3 cm across, viscid. Stipe 8.5 cm long, apex pruinose, 4.5 mm thick, bulbous base 15 mm thick. Partial veil absent. Gills finely serrate. Odor raphanoid. Growing in mossy area under Sitka spruce. Basidia 25 - 32.5 x 6.3 - 7.5 µm. Pleurocystidia absent. Cheilocystidia 45 - 55 (100) µm long x 5 - 7.5 µm wide at the apex. Spores slightly rough, dextrinoid (see last 2 spore pictures), (8.8) 9.2 - 10.6 (11.1) x (5.6) 6.1 - 7 (7.3) µm, Q = 1.43 - 1.6.