Hygrophorus bakerensis
Lloydia 5: 88. 1942.
Common Name: none
For description see Hesler & Smith & 'California Mushrooms'.
Scattered to gregarious in soil and duff under conifers in conifer forests or mixed hardwood-conifer forests; fruiting in late fall in northern California and the Sierra Nevada.
Edible.
Hygrophorus bakerensis can be distinguished by its brown to yellowish brown, viscid cap, white adnate to subdecurrent gills, a dry white stipe, and almon odor. Hygrophorus agathosmus also has a strong almond odor but it forms smaller fruitbodies with gray to brownish gray cap.
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