Veiled Hebeloma     Section

This is a key to gilled mushrooms, that is, mushrooms having a definite cap with a fertile surface consisting of gills. The fruiting body usually also has a stem, although that may be lateral or absent (usually, then, the mushroom is growing from wood). You can use this key to identify mushrooms that you find.

Fruiting body containing fibers (usually in the stalk)

Gills not free
Spore print tan, orange, deep ochre, yellowish olive, olive brown, rusty or cinnamon brown or deep brown
Ring usually either absent or not membranous

Growing on the ground

Cap up to 4" across, but usually more like 1"; glabrous; some extremely nondescript shade of greyish brown
Stem fleshy
Gill edges often appear white, minutely fringed
Always mycorrhizal; almost always in forests

Diagnosis

• A fibrillose partial veil or cortina is present in young specimens.
  
• Remnants of the veil can usually be found on the cap margin or stalk of mature mushrooms

Narrow down your identification:

Cap up to 2 1/2" across; reddish brown; viscid when fresh or moist
Growing under conifers
Odor sometimes radishlike
Taste radish-like or bitter

Cap up to 2 1/2" across
Partial veil persistent, copious, forming patches that sheathe the lower stalk

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