eat-bolete Posted November 9, 2018 Report Share Posted November 9, 2018 Subdecurrent gills, smells mild but reminds me of Agaricus smell, tastes noticeably sweet, grow in a fairy ring I think, spore print appears white based on deposit onto mushrooms below. Very stout mushroom. Among oaks but probably saprobic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eat-bolete Posted November 9, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2018 Clitocybe robusta seems to fit. White spore print might be yellowish. Anyone tried it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CamilleR Posted November 9, 2018 Report Share Posted November 9, 2018 Michael Kuo says they have a sickly sweet smell. I'm surprised you still have mushrooms on the ground. It will be about 20 degrees here tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eat-bolete Posted November 9, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2018 Camille, I find them smelling similar to Agaricus, which people describe smelling as almonds and cherries, so sweet smell seems to fit. Our temps are still above freezing until Sunday night. Got another 4 pounds of blewits today. Other than that not much but my eyes are still checking the ground level as the oysters are starting to show up but they prefer downed trees to standing ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave W Posted November 11, 2018 Report Share Posted November 11, 2018 Clitocybe robusta has what I perceive as a strange odor... sweetish, but sorta sickly sweetish. Perception of odor is fairly subjective. I once ate half a meal that included C. robusta. (I had mis-IDed them as Lepista irina.) The other half of the meal... I threw it out. The mushrooms tasted lousy. C. robusta is a late-season saprobe that favors beds of coniferous needles, but is also found in a variety of forest settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eat-bolete Posted November 11, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2018 Thanks Dave. I did another spore print and it came out yellowish, so most likely C. robusta it is. Didn’t eat it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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