Growing under conifers. Pore surface white, does not bruise. KOH orange on pileipellis. FeSO4 pale grayish green on context.
Cap 6 cm across, stipe 10.5 cm long. Spores in Lugol's solution at 400x, 10.25 - 11.25 um in diameter.
Cap has long trailing marginal fibers. Cap not expanding in age. Gills rusty brown. Spores in KOH at 400x.
Fruitbody 6 cm tall, 4 cm across. Mid branches salmon-orange, branch tips and bases yellowish. Stipe context weakly amyloid. Odor indistinct. Growing under conifers. Spores roughened, narrowly ellipsoid, 9.6 - 11.3 x 3.4 - 4.6 um.
Fruitbody white, fragile, large, cap 15 cm across. Growing under conifers. Spores in Lugol's solution at 400x.
The 4 subsequent observations follow the progression in age of this collection.
Spore deposit grayish. Cap turns red with 3% KOH. Flesh turns pink with 3% KOH. Stipe base turns brownish red with 3 % KOH. Cap, stipe and flesh turn bluish black in Lugol’s solution. Spores 21 x 6 µm, smooth, subfusiform. Flesh is very firm, dense, rubbery to almost corky. Gills broadly attached, thick, wrinkled, enveloped in folds of flesh that become exposed as the cap expands and matures. Growing under Incense Cedar and 3 needle pines. Black oak close by.
Fruitbody 17 cm across. Spores size (excluding spines) (7.3) 8 - 10.1 (11) x (7.2) 7.8 - 9.8 (10.7) µm, Q = 1 (1.1), N = 30, Me = 9 x 8.9 µm, Qe = 1.
With rays fully extended would measure approximately 10 cm across. 10 rays. Spore sac 3 - 3.5 cm across, peristome absent.
Cap up to 1.5 cm across, striate, sulcate. Gills decurrent. Stipe viscid. Odor not distinct. Spores 8-9 x 4.5 micrometers, ellipsoid.