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KOH black on cap

HB4116

Black spores on lower mushroom

First fresh fruiting S. ostrea of the year!

T. ochrea?

Latex DNS

Taste mild

KOH orange on flesh, black on cap. Growing with hardwood (I think elm)

Sticky on undersurface and smells like L. sulphureus

KOH yellow on stipe flesh, reddish yellow on cap and gills; ammonia negative on stipe flesh, yellow on gills and cap

D. quercina growing around an old T. gibbosa?

Found other definite T. gibbosa on adjacent log

Did not bruise when touched

Growing on dead eastern hemlock

KOH amber brown everywhere

Taste indistinctive

Growing directly under eastern hemlock, but within a hardwood's root distance too

KOH yellowish, green on cap

KOH yellow on cap, negative on gills; ammonia pinkish brown on cap, negative on gills

KOH amber on cap surface, yellow on flesh, negative on gills; ammonia negative everywhere

3/last 4 photos KOH on left (pink on cap surface & flesh, negative on pores), ammonia on right (reddish brown on cap surface, negative on pores and flesh)

Both flat-pored and toothed?