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PNW Cortinarius
The last couple of sub freezing nights have turned most of the mushrooms to little piles of black slime, but life springs eternal - as it warmed up today these guys started pushing up through the frosty ground. It's not supposed to go below about 3c tonight and warm up more over the next few days, so they should have a fighting chance.
''Cortinarius vanduzerensis'' is a species of mushroom in the family Cortinariaceae. Described as new to science in 1972, it is known only from the Pacific Northwest region of North America, where it grows under conifers such as spruce, hemlock, and Douglas-fir. The fruit bodies of the fungus, or mushrooms, have a slimy dark chestnut-brown cap that becomes deeply radially grooved or corrugated in maturity, and reaches diameters of up to 8 cm . The gills on the underside of the cap are initially.. more
