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a gym, but what kind?
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I have been watching this mushroom for about 2 weeks (at least). When it appeared, I thought it might be a spectabilis pin, but it turned out to not be that spectabacular. Only about 4 cm tall, 3cm cap. The stem was solid which probably kept it going as long as it did (You can see the insects have gotten at it)
and broadening toward the base. The cap was deformed but smooth when I found it, but it seems to be going kind of scurfy like other gym caps.
And then there is the bruising.
You can see the same kind of purple-bruising that you see in my other bigger specimen which I am pretty sure was aeruginosus.

I should post a drier version of the aeruginosus bruising--it is darker and bluer than what you see here.
In this picture...

You can see the striations in the stalk that for all the world are gym like.
I wonder what this sucker is...it is not liquiritiae nor aeruginosus. The only other possibility is penetrans which only ONE of my guides lists and the guide is at least 20 years old. According to that description penetrans cap should be about the same as the length of the stipe with a cap of about 5 to 8 cm. Decurrent gills. I really don't think we have a hit.
NO sporeprint--specimen seems to have lost all activity but the print is orange/brown judging from a print left on one of the caps.
Any ideas?


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Re: a gym, but what kind? [Re: wallace]
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I'm thinking penetrans My book  lists the gills as "sometimes enlarging downward" . In the color plate, the gills are not decurrent, but on one out of three, I can see striations where the gills are beginning to descend the stalk.
What do you know of the edibility of the gyms you found?

Again, nice finds, good documentation. :thumbup:


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