"Christina Websell" wrote in message
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Christina Websell wrote:


It makes a difference whether teddy bear, russet, traditional
shoe brown, chocolate or purplish - that's the gills.

Chocolate.

Also,
some indication of the cap and stem colour and texture would help.

Cap was white, now going brownish, stem is white. Texture is what you
would
expect from a mushroom you can eat.
No spores evident. It has a frill or ring on the stem near the cap. My
camera is out of order atm.
I only get the one, never more.

I may be able to guess, but the ones I am thinking of are not
all that common (I have never seen them), and would rather not
jump in.

Guess away. It made me ill, and sometimes we get uncommon things.

Before I do, please do that spore colour test! All you need to
do is to leave parts of the cap, gill side down, on blackish and
white papers overnight. Spore colour is one of THE critical
diagnostic features!


Done. Have put the cap gill side down on some white paper now. Have no
blackish paper ;-)
Tina


No spores were shed on to my white paper overnight. I expected the spores
to look like dust - is that correct? If so, zilch. It did make the paper
wet by my putting it gills down so the paper was stained brown. Maybe it
had shed all the spores before I picked it, it was certainly getting elderly
before I noticed it and had been chomped a bit by slugs who must be immune.
Maybe I will never know what it is, I only get one a year and it really,
absolutely, looks safe.
If I need a microscope to find the spores of this beastie, well, I don't
have one ;-)
I would love to know what Nick thinks it might be.
It cannot be a Heleboma as they only appear in September plus.