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  1. Photos are from 9/7/19.  I was going through my notes and noticed I had neglected to look this mushroom up.  There was no spore print taken due to age.  I did not taste either for the same reason.  Smelled like earthy mushroom.  It was growing from decaying wood of unrecognized type.  Mixed conifer and aspen forest.  The caps  have raised black small tufts.  Seems like we got our rains 2/3 the way through these mushrooms growth and split the caps.

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  2. Since it will be weeks before I can go hunting again in the forest I decided to try and find stuff here in the desert.

    I am making a tentative ID of Tulostoma simulans.  Since I do not have a microscope I cannot look at the spores.

    We just received several days of rain so this is the fungi’s only real chance to sporulate for the year here.

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  3. I agree with the foil recommendation.  It does not matter what color the spores are, they will be seen on foil.  Also it will not wick water and/or color onto the print possibly giving a false color.

    The image without the cap was barely visible to my eye, but the camera picked up on stuff I couldn’t see.

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  4. I usually try to pick out one LBM on my hunts to try and learn.  These were quite numerous and were pretty to me.  It had a chocolate brown spore print.  Smelled and tasted like an earthy mushroom.  No bruising.  No veil noted.  The lack of staining rules out P. cyanescens.  As shown the older caps turn up similar to Russula species.

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