can plant different annuals year after year and never run out of choices of shape or color. as with music or food, familiarity with annual flowers deepens your enjoyment of them. since annuals complete their life cycle in one growing season and in northern climates the growing season is limited, sowing...
collecting, documenting, and preserving suillus placidus for study; her collection is deposited in the herbarium of michael kuo . description: ecology: mycorrhizal with pinus strobus ( eastern white pine ); growing alone, scattered, or gregariously; summer and fall; fairly widely distributed in northeastern...
another example) are wood-decomposing saprobes . although chemical testing is probably not needed in order to successfully identify tapinella atrotomentosa, its reaction to common household ammonia is so striking, purple, and unexpected that i recommend the test just for the fun of it. description:...
the same species (ammirati & bigelow, ); however, since cortinarius iodes is the older name (applied by berkeley & curtis in ), it takes precedence. thanks to roxanne palmrose for collecting, documenting, and preserving some of the illustrated and described specimens; her collection is deposited in...
collecting, documenting, and preserving lactarius paradoxus for study; their collections are deposited in the herbarium of michael kuo . description: ecology: mycorrhizal with pines, and sometimes also reported with live oaks; growing alone or gregariously; summer and fall; fairly widely distributed...
young with bald or finely velvety, flattened or widely rounded, pale yellowish to whitish ridges and medium to dark gray or black pits; when mature with bluntly rounded to sharp or eroded, brownish yellow to yellowish brown ridges and similarly colored pits (but often remaining in the "gray stage" for...
species roughly meeting the description of mycena filopes has marched around on both continents for over years; see the discussion below if you care. description: ecology: saprobic on terrestrial forest debris in both hardwood and conifer forests; usually growing gregariously but sometimes found growing...
it usually pops up in spring, just after the morels have disappeared, but sometimes it appears in fall, as well. polyporus umbellatus is sometimes called "grifola umbellata" in older field guides--and it may soon be headed for a new genus (perhaps "dendropolyporus"), once the dna-informed taxonomy of...
features crumbling-granular veil remnants on the cap, and does not stain red. description: ecology: saprobic ; growing alone, scattered, or gregariously in sand dunes and drainage areas near coastal and brackish waters; also in lawns and grassy areas along roadsides, especially where roads are salted for...
agaricus kriegeri include the many brown, fibrillose scales on the cap; the fairly thick stem with a gradually swollen base; the rubbery ring with a thick edge; and sphaeropedunculate cheilocystidia. the flesh in the stem base may turn slightly yellow when sliced, or it may not. thanks to cecily franklin for...