Spotting

Description:

With a cap about 90 mm wide, this purplish brown thick flesh mushroom was seen in very sodden soil. The pale cream gills were close and attached to the thick white stipe. Some forking seen. Droplets of water were seen on the gills and some contained white spores (pic #3). Hyphae seen around base of stipe and the stipe appeared to have delicate white fibres.

Habitat:

Spotted in sodden earth under Eucalytpus trees.

Notes:

This might be Tricholoma sp. I am unsure if the forked gills is significant. The droplets of moisture was assumed to be latex at first but some droplets were clear and could have been moisture from recent rains. Will keep looking for an ID - ? Tricholoma eucalypticum