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Created: 2008-07-15 15:36:58
By: Douglas Smith (douglas)
Summary: Not Laccaria
Take a look at the other photos of Laccaria on this site, and there are a few on Laccaria proxima. There are few here, and a few mine, of Laccaria laccata that might be Laccaria proxima also. But each of these the cap is not sticky, but dry. If you put water on a Laccaria cap, it just soaks right in, and the cap stays fairly dry, it doesn’t get sticky/slimy.
For the most point, Laccaria will have pink/purple/brownish gills, which isn’t what you have here. But also for the most part Laccaria has a fibrous stipe which is fairly distinctive, which you don’t seem to have here.
But is all cases for little brown jobs you don’t know well, you need a spore print to even get started. All families of ‘shrooms have their little brown jobs, but with a spore print you can at least sort them to family and get started. With lots of color and distinctive features you could get away without one, but trying to get an id on a little brown job you don’t know, that is where you have to start.
Just a warning, trying to id a little brown job is not really a beginner thing to try…
Oh, a note on spore color, getting a spore print can be a pain, and like for me, I only get a spore print for very few of the stuff I find. You can get the spore color for 90% of cases by comparing the gill color in the young (young!) caps, and compare to old caps, any change in color for most cases will be the spore color. But this is only true for 80-90% of cases, and there are lot (lots!) of cases where this isn’t true, but this is how most people get a rough spore color. Past that you look for spore drops on material under the cap, on the top of the stipe, on the edge of the cap and such.
But when I find a LBJ that I haven’t seen before, I get a spore print to even get started. After doing that a few times for a new species/genus you get enough experience that you don’t have to keep doing it.
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