Favoritos de leptonia

"Cog wheel" partial veil when immature; light almondy odor; nutty taste when cooked; very pale yellow KOH reaction; did not stain yellow with handling or cutting or dehydration; there was a bright orange-yellow spot on a damaged part of one of the caps, which we thought was some type of bacterial growth or fungus; I believe this was the same species found nearby off the same road, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/146592750

On pile of woody debris and leaves under live oak.

Farinaceous smell, becoming fruity (grape soda?) after tackle box. Pleasant fungal-farinaceous taste.

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Originally posted to Mushroom Observer on Feb. 22, 2022.

under a slight shrump in the decomposed grantie like sand was a large fruiting of this mushrooms making a half circle around a Chamise plant. Manzanita was ~5 m away, otherwise it was all chamise. No scent. very viscid cap with a slime veil extending down to the stem, stem had large ridge on it making it slightly flocculus. cap had a grey hue to it in situ, but it may have been due to it being past sundown

UVF 365 nm = dramatic blue

With Sitka spruce, cap about 6 cm wide, viscid, Lilac with lighter center, gills purple with rusty tones,
stipe dry, bulbous base, white except near apex where rusty brown cortina remnant and violet hue expressed

Found on UCSC campus in a smallish burn zone. Seemed to be fruiting only in patches that were burned. In a mixed evergreen forest consisting of redwoods, douglas-fir, madrone, huckleberry, and the occasional oak. The base of the stipe seems like it connects to clumps of clay soil underground. The soil has sparkly minerals in it. There are small nuggets of mycelium is inside the larger clumps of clay soil. No strong flavor, dries out mouth slightly, light fungal smell. White spores that powder coat caps underneath and leave rings of white spore powder on the soil beneath the cap.