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...
once-vast genus collybia , collybia cookei grows from the ground or from the blackened remains of other, larger mushrooms. its stems are attached to "sclerotia"--little knots of tissue buried in the substrate. you'll need to pry around and uncover the sclerotia if you want to identify collybia cookei...
. deconica argentina, like its better-known cousin deconica coprophila, is "coprophilous," meaning it pops up in piles of dung—usually the dung of horses or cows. mmmm, mmmm, mmmm. if you know these mushrooms, you really know your $#!...
collectors is the dearth of available technical literature. i know several mycologists who maintain that kauffman's treatment of russula species in the great lakes area is still one ofthe most comprehensive and useful overall treatments ofthegenus on this continent!...
, is easily separated from the others on the basis of its size and its stem. three other north american species, often treated broadly as "sarcoscypha coccinea" in field guides, are more difficult to separate, and may require microscopic analysis for identification. all four are keyed out below. key...
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kuo this beautiful mushroom is found in california's coast redwood forests, over winter. it features a deep blue, slimy cap that quickly turns dark red--then slowly fades to dull yellowish. its stem is also slimy. the mushroom is essentially a blue-then-red version ofthe well known "parrot mushroom...
(or, better said, "squats") out from the crowd with its gray cap and seemingly truncated stem, which is much shorter in proportion to the width ofthe cap than the stems of most melanoleucas. microscopic features (see below) include funky, harpoon-tipped, frequently septate cystidia. description: ecology...
are held in tubes--rather like the tubes ofthe boletes , except that with some exceptions the tube layer of a polypore cannot be easily removed as a layer, the way it can with a bolete. aside from the fact that many of them are attractive and interesting mushrooms, polypores are of special interest...