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found during a spell of cold weather
in a planter with bark near a commercial building
My first thought was a bolete family member, perhaps suillious, but note the gills
Spotted on Dec 21, 2012
Submitted on Dec 21, 2012
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A Bolete is a mushroom with a central stipe and pores underneath the cap instead of gills (with the exception of mushrooms from the Phylloporus genus known as 'Gilled Boletes'). Since your mushroom doesn't have pores (nor does it resemble any Phylloporus species), we can conclude that it is not a Bolete. I can see the resemblance in the cap surface though.
What it is I don't know :-)