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Cap: 2-6 cm broad.
Campanulate to conic with protrude. margin is inrolled when young then
becomes incurved and irregular with age, an expands to broadly convex
to plane lifting up in age. Color is chestnut-brown to deep olivaceous-brown.
Hygrophanous, fading to pallid brown to light brown. Flesh is white bruising
bluish when dasmaged and with age. Surface viscid when moist from a separable
gelatinous pellicle and is translucent-striate near the margin.
Gills: Adnate to sinuate with two tiers of intermediate gills. Close, even and broad becoming dark
chocolate-brown with maturity.
Stem: 25-70mm long by 4-8 mm thick. Equal and swollen at the base.
White to dingy brown, brising blue where damaged or with age. Spores: 5.5-6.5 by 4-5 microns. Basidia is 4-spored. Sporeprint: purple-violet-brown spores. Habitat: Gregarious to cepitosein red clay soils with pine needles of loblolly pine underneath sweetgum.and Distribution:Northern Georgia Season: Dosage:One large mushroom or three to four small mushrooms Comment:Named in honor of Dr. Andrew Weil for his work in the field
of Ethnobotanical and Ethnomycological Medicinal Plant Studies |

