on this day quizzes new articles wasabi wasabi, (eutrema japonicum), plant ofthe mustard family (brassicaceae) and a pungent paste made of its ground rhizomes. the plant is native to japan, south korea, and sakhalin, russia, and its cultivation is limited because of its specific growing requirements...
on the continent, and easily recognized by its dark, mottled gills, its nearly black spore print , its hairy ("fibrillose," in mycologese) cap, and the ring zone on its stem. it was always rather un- psathyrella -ish, and mycologists over the years have debated where to place it. recent dna studies...
attempting to separate them from softer, fleshier puffballs. about species of scleroderma have been described world-wide, and most of these occur in north america. the easily recognized scleroderma citrinum is well known and common, and famous for hosting the curious bolete boletus parasiticus . in...
in the fresh state; i have only studied decades-old herbarium specimens that fail to convey the beauty ofthe species. the terrestrial growth habit, cushion-shaped cap, and ribbed stem with a pink base distinguish gyromitra californica from all other species of gyromitra but gyromitra sphaerospora,...
logs after heavy rains. it is whitish or nearly transparent, and fairly large (up to about cm across)--and it features graceful gelatinous lobes rather than the glob-like blobs that typify so many other jelly fungi. like many jellies, tremella fuciformis has a life cycle that is intertwined with that...
name suggests; daedalus designed the maze that hid the minotaur) and a whitish to grayish or brownish cap surface. the tough flesh is whitish to pale brownish--but never rusty brown or dark brown. species of gloeophyllum can look somewhat similar, but feature brown to rusty brown flesh and gill-like...
united states. it often has a longer stem structure than other species in thegenus, but this feature cannot be relied on to identify it with certainty. xylaria longipes is somewhat variable in its appearance, but defining features include its medium size, its club-shaped head, and its spores , which...
in clavaria, clavulina, and clavulinopsis in its prominent cystidia--a feature not found in the other genera. it is also clearly separated from the others molecularly, leading dentinger & mclaughlin ( ) to create thegenus alloclavaria to accommodate this funky mushroom. however, the dull purple colors...
thegenus gyromitra. to the naked eye it is more or less indistinguishable from a host of other brownish, springtime cup fungi (including disciotis venosa , peziza arvernensis , and others). under the microscope, however, it is clearly distinct from most look-likes. field guides, which usually treat...
, morphologically, and ecologically distinct european species that does not occur in north america, characterized by mycorrhizal association with pines (species of pinus), conspicuous pot-holes on the stem surface, and thin-lined sporal ornamentation. i have seen lactarius deliciosus in european woods...