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Found in NH growing on the roots of a tree


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Looking for help identifying these beauties. They are growing on the roots of a recently fallen adult tree. 🤔

1. Tree unkown

2. Mushroom spore print is dark purple/black

3. Brown rusty orange caps

4. Dry conditions so didnt bruise much but appeared to turn slightly black/purple

 

 

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8 hours ago, Dave W said:

Species of Hypholoma. Possibly H. lateritium (formerly H. sublateritium). But either of H. capnoides or H. fasciculare is also possible (although these mushrooms look to be e bit large for the latter). 

 
I'd have to agree on that it is most likely Hypholoma Lateritium. 
 
Hypholoma lateritium Identification
 
Ecology
Saprobic; growing in clusters on decaying hardwood logs and stumps; fall; widely distributed in North America but more common east of the Rocky Mountains. 
 
Cap
3-10 cm; convex, becoming broadly convex, nearly flat, or irregular in age; with an incurved margin when young; bald; dry or moist; brick red overall, but paler (pinkish to buff) on the margin, especially when young; the margin sometimes hung with wispy veil fragments. 
 
Gills
Attached to the stem; close or crowded; when young covered by a whitish, cortina-like veil; whitish when very young, but soon pale gray to gray, becoming purple-gray to dark purple-brown with maturity; short-gills frequent. 
 
Stem
4-12 cm long; 1-2 cm thick; more or less equal, or twisted and tapering to base due to the clustered growth pattern; bald, or finely hairy near the apex; often featuring an ephemeral or persistent ring zone near the top; yellowish to whitish above, brown to reddish below; sometimes bruising and staining yellow. 
 
Flesh
Firm; whitish to yellowish. 
 
Odor and Taste
Odor not distinctive; taste mild or slightly bitter. 
 
Chemical Reactions
KOH brownish on cap surface. 
 
Spore Print Purple brown.
 
Hypholoma Lateritium Look-Alikes
 
Hypholoma Capnoides
Is a similar species but grows on conifer wood and has a yellowish-brown to tan to the orangish-brown cap. 
 
Hypholoma Fasciculare
Inedible, and poisonous mushroom is also known as sulphur tuft
 
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