I've gotten 1 bracer and the gloves so far. You need the Sport Mushroom, not the mushroom spore for the gloves. As for the bracer, I spent 4 hours killing bleeders, then realized that I needed corpse/fungus spores, not the stupid bugs. 4 hours of time I could've been lvling, wasted. *sigh* As to the color, it seems to be black.