tony reichstadt in minnesota it is anything but a rare find, since it pops up in huge numbers under a white oak in his lawn. tony threw me for a loop when he sent me a "what's this mushroom?"...
cover the gill edges, too, so there is only a small window of opportunity to catch stropharia aeruginosa in its identifiable-by-naked-eye stage. stropharia cyanea, in the sense of some authors, is a synonym. psilocybe caerulea is a synonym. agaricus impolitus is a former name. thanks to alison sampson for...
staining no longer occurs and the flesh is less clearly zoned. at this point the species is much more difficult to identify with certainty, and one must rely on the fact that it causes a brown, cubical rot (rather than a white, stringy rot)—and on microscopic features, including its broadly ellipsoid spores...
species group: "[t]he extraordinarily high sequence divergence among collections identified as h. psittacinus indicates this is a species complex and is in need of further study." in coastal california a blue-then-red version of gliophorus psittacinus appears under conifers over winter; see the page for...
collecting, documenting, and preserving a collection of gymnopilus junonius for study; their collection is deposited in the herbarium of michael kuo . description: ecology: saprobic on the rotting wood of hardwoods and conifers; usually growing in clusters; summer and fall (fall through spring on the...
, assessing whether its stem base is white or yellow, and figuring out the precise extent to which its gills are attached to the stem, i invite you to consider other species names for your big red waxy cap--including hygrocybe coccinea , hygrocybe splendissima, and hygrocybe aurantiosplendens. i'm sure...
. thanks to david otis and rex wahl for collecting, documenting, and preserving leucopaxillus albissimus for study; their collections are deposited in the herbarium of michael kuo . description: ecology: saprobic , decomposing the litter of conifers; growing scattered, gregariously, or in arcs or fairy...
in its head structure are also distinctive; they usually stay joined at the tips, and the spore goo covers their inner surfaces from top to bottom. this combination of features will serve to separate lysurus mokusin from other, similar species. thanks to bob albright, ellen meyer, and chris swanda for...
; as well as a poorly known species, amanita elongata (cap more yellow than orange, stem more white than yellow). thanks to roxanne palmrose for collecting, documenting, and preserving amanita flavoconia for study; her collection is deposited in the herbarium of michael kuo . description: ecology: mycorrhizal...
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