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Key 5.3

Fuscobolitinus

 

Is the cap dry with pink, dense fibrils; flesh pink in narrow zone beneath cuticle?

Yes

Is the cap viscid to glutinous? ............  .................    ....................    ..........................

Yes

 

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You have a F. ochraceorseus

 

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Is the cap viscid, red with gray veil patches; grows in eastern larch bogs?

Yes

Is the cap glutinous, whitish, yellow-brown to red-brown? .............   ..................

Yes

 

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You have a F. spectabilis

 

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Does the flesh bruise blue-green; the cap whitish to smoky-gray?

Yes

Does the flesh not bruise; cap yellow-brown to red-brown?

Yes

 

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You have a F. aeruginascens

 

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You have a F. sinuspaulianus

 

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