when least expected. my wife and i were perched precariously on a moss-covered hillside, taking photos of black trumpets and charismatic clumps of amanita flavoconia , when we noticed the little green clubs emerging from the moss. they were small enough and, in the moss, green-on-green enough, that...
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in field guides. from above, its hairy, shell-shaped cap is reminiscent of a polypore (perhaps a species of trametes)--but its underside features densely packed spines. originally described from south carolina, climacodon pulcherrimus has since been documented throughout much of eastern north america...
large pore openings that are often arranged radially a partial veil that leaves a ring or tissue hanging from the cap margin the problem is, few ofthe suillus mushrooms know they are supposed to manifest all of these features at once. this makes some of them a little difficult to identify to genus-...
the base in mature specimens) and their yellow spore prints . like most boletes, they are mycorrhizal . they grow primarily east ofthe rocky mountains, but at least one species, gyroporus castaneus , is reported in california; a few species range south into mexico and central america. identification...
north america, where it is associated with mountain mahogany—shrub-like trees in thegenus cercocarpus, including birchleaf mountain mahogany , which is what the illustrated and described collection was growing under in larimer county, colorado. cercopemyces crocodilinus is reminiscent of some species...
hunting nemeses. as far as i am concerned, they are about as cool as mushrooms can get; some of them parasitize underground puffballs, while the rest attack insects. but the challenge for a mushroom hunter is to recognize cordyceps in the woods and manage to dig up, collect and/or photograph the parasitized...
platyphylla) featured in field guides--a medium-sized, deadwood-associated mushroom with a white spore print , a streaked-looking brown to gray-brown cap, and a stem base often attached to white cords. however, a recent study (hughes and collaborators, ) based on dna results for specimens from across the...
have chosen it to represent the "typical" features of pholiotas--namely, a scaly cap and stem (thegenus name means "scaly" in greek), a brown spore print , attached gills, and a partial veil . pholiota squarrosa may require microscopic analysis for certain identification (see below), but its dry cap...