Fruiting on a well rotted/myceliated conifer log.
Douglas fir and Western red cedar dominant spot.
Gills: very tightly spaced/close. Faintly decurrent.
Stem: pruinose, grayish reddish brown.
Cap: hygrophanous, striate at margins, vellar remnants on margin.
Harvested 7 specimens.
Removed a section of cap and removed gill tissue for mount in drop of Lugol’s and 3% KOH.
MICROSCOPY:
Spores: Elliptical, small, smooth, slightly thick walled, apical germ pore. Side laying spores slightly curved.
Basidia: 4 sterigmate, fused, clamped at base.
Cheilocystidia: Fusoid ventricose to clavate.
Trama: mass of fused globose/subglobose cells.
Dehydrated all specimens thoroughly and bagged for herbarium collection/genetic record.
My corresponding Mushroomobserver observation below-
Really big fruiting on a fallen hardwood log. Cool find, will have feast.
Husband found this buried under wood chips. Very strong almond extract smell. Yellow staining where bruised.
In parking strip with madrone trees. Found Manzanita boletes in same spot last fall - I think this is one as well, but it's a little hard to tell. Also strange to find it in the spring.
No bugs at all, slight purplish bruising at the base of the stipe.
On the cut end of a fallen Ponderosa pine.